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If you're remembering your IPv6 address you're doing IPv6 wrong. In fact, it's good practice to always use a temporary IPv6 address.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8981#name-problem-s...

The only case where I care about an IPv6 address is for something I actually want to expose to the internet. A temporary address would be quite annoying in that case.
It's fdac::1. If you're using random 48 bit or 64 bit numbers in your IP address you're doing it wrong.

I have zero concerns that the IPv6 namespace for my home network will conflict with another administrative site during a merger. So.. it works great. Also super handy when the DNS resolver for my local network is down because of power outages or other unrelated failures.

... How do you connect to another PC on your network? Always use DNS or something?
Yet another reason why ipv6 will never happen
They should charge a small annual fee and let people reserve a custom word for a given IP. You could even have a small utility on your computer that automatically queries given names to "resolve" to IPs.
they should also charge a reasonably larger annual fee for reserving a short suffix and allow re-selling custom word prefixes..
And then if they don't like someone they should revoke their word. And they should make it so words with certain endings are delegated to other countries who can also revoke your word if they don't like you.
To facilitate client to client communications, they should add a who-does-it-serve (short WHO DIS) system to get contact information of already reserved names.
As long as there is a way to inappropriately link the security of my entire enterprise into it!
I tried it. Maybe it's easier to speak than hexadecimal is.

But I'm not sure that "How morally the enviable assistances categorize the insistent iodine beyond new time where new systems stalk" has the same memorable quality as "correct horse battery staple" does.

Being essentially impossible to memorize is one of the worst attributes of IPv6. I memorize and manually type IPv4 addresses all the time and it's super useful.
I've been memorizing and typing IPv4 addresses too, but I have enough devices on the network now that I can't remember nearly all the IPv4 addresses.

So then I need to use DNS. At which point it could be IPv6.

I have 56 host entries in my dnsmasq.conf.

It is notable that an IPv4 address expressed as a decimal number has up to 10 digits, the same as a phone number in many countries.
What would have been your solution to needing more bits? More information is always going to be harder to remember.
DNS, Avahi are super usefuler.
Reminds me a bit of S/KEY (RFC1760, RFC2289 and others around the 1990's).

Not because of the encryption element, but the part about representing a 64 bit integer as a six word sequence for usability.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY#Usability).

Also used outside of that for quickly/easily recognising hash fingerprints.

(It's easier to recognise that your fingerprint is "GAFF WAIT SKID GIG SKY EYED" than "87FE C776 8B73 CCF9").

(It also slips some parity in there for good measure).

So just imagine if there was a service that could translate any words you wanted into the IP address instead of relying on some website to generate jibberish. Wouldn't that be cool to use instead? Some kind of name system? Based around domains of authority?
It reminds me of what3words, using three words to describe any location on earth. I really hoped that could catch on.
Kind of like what3words, except what3words uses three words which you stand a chance of remembering, whereas this produced, for an address similar to mine, "Miniature nerves eulogize gaily inside erect lion yet able stables hiss the conclusive consultation."
what3words Is terrible and search and rescue teams are actively against people using it.
Something that I think was probably once obvious to me but I rediscovered recently is just how intensely wired for song the brain is. If you want to memorize anything, doing it as a song makes it far easier.

I’d really love to see things like this generate little jingles along with the sentence. :)

There actually was an attempt on HN a little while back to use GenAI to convert facts, flashcards, lists, etc. into automated melodic mnemonics. The biggest issue in that particular case was that it was also generating the motif from scratch.

At least for me, part of the reason I can still sing the countries of the world is because the original Animaniacs song was set to a tune that was already familiar: “Jarabe Tapatío” (aka the Mexican Hat Dance).

As anecdotal evidence, I could never remember all the names of the london tube stations as prose, but after listening to Jay Foreman's Every Tube Station song a few times, I cant help but sing it every time I hear a tube station name, and can almost flawlessly list them all off

https://youtu.be/8jPyg2pK11M

It's huge when you consider all the data humans have stored and transferred orally over the millennia.

Music, meter, and rhyme are all (among other things) algorithms for indexing and error-correction, tools very suitable to the squishy hardware.

The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new year.

Or more concisely, localhost.

Commented with the same without reading through the comments first; now deleted.

That is a lot of words for ::1.

Edit: there was another one below, haha :)

I’m afraid to ask, but why, and who, tries to or wants/needs to remember IPv6 addresses?
What is the use-case for this? I’m trying to think of an IPv6 address I would need to remember, and then when I’d have access to this site without having access to a text file where I could have noted the address down. I’m coming up empty.
it may more likely have something to do with the date of April Fools :) seems it got more than a few folks here haha
It'd be nice if simpler addresses gave simpler sentences. fe80::1 translates to "Uninhibited times take now inside new time yet new times take the new year."
"The amazing champions inspire boldly like brilliant genius and incredible legends admire splendid talent."

Hard to forget a sentence like that!

I don't understand how the mapping works. An address has 8 parts and produces 16 words, so each part consists of 2 words. If we take the example 2a02, that gets encoded to "how atop", but I don't see how that text helps me that "how atop" means 2a02? Am I suppose to memorize both? How does that help?
We kind of had the same idea for ECDSA public keys (an imagined solution to zokos triangle -- human readable and decentralized) as well as private keys (BIP39 brain wallets). Honestly it still falls short of truly name-based though.
The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new time.
The first (of two) examples encodes to:

> How now the smart flies take the new time beyond new time where new times come.

..Nice idea, but it may need some more thought. (Even more so as 2001:db8::1 is much easier to remember than that!) (I wrote that parenthetical from memory on edit, vs. had to copy-paste the sentence when it was my intention to comment on it within seconds.)

http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?ipv6

Now, if only those people who designed IPv6 were smarter.. Hex aint that bad, LONG hex addresses are pain to use.

Now, lets say you have LAN like this [::1:0:0/56]. So, ::1:0:24 is easy to remember right? Managable? right?.. Also, bonus for :: shortening is, you immediatly know what are you dealing with, ::1 is loopback, ::1:1 is LL, ::1:0:1 is LAN.. everything else is Internet.

The truth is, IPv6 is really 64bit, the other 64bit part is just randomish node address...

This encoding is so long, that I'm more likely to remember the raw address. :D

And I don't think I ever typed manually any IPv6 address other than `::1`.

I would have enjoyed a blog entry detailing how this works, regardless of its practical utility.
Just proves that 16 bytes was too much, and we should have just gone 8 bytes.
I'm old. I can't remember breakfast.
why is there even a need to remember IPv6 address in the first place?
Not too sure of the utility of this. It's not an easy sentence to remember, because while grammatical, it's nonsense—it would take some effort. So if I'm trying to memorize a static IP, setting up a DNS name is likely to be easier. And also if I'm going to be using this to memorize IPs I'd like the algorithm to be open source.

All that being said, I think it's a neat idea and a cool tool!

ipv6 is for faceless hordes of cellphones, which could just as easily be NAT

despite being an ipv6 skeptic, i’ve been thinking to try using ipv6 for our new company network, but make the addresses purely readable

love to get an api for this.
Ah yes, because "How now the smart flies take the new time beyond new time where new times come." is so much easier to remember than "2001:db8::1".
Mine comes with a swear!

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