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A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day ...
ugh why is ipv6 impossible to understand :/
detaro
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Is the notation the problem here? IPs have 16 bytes now, so the notation is a bit more compact: hex instead of decimal numbers, and :: is a shortcut meaning "replace with as many zeros as necessary to fill the address to 16 bytes"
chungy
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It's not. Think IPv4 but bigger.
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