There was a cool project that converted hexadecimal numbers (or IPs) to pronouceable words. I think it was also more dense, and of course faster to say / easier to remember.

[–] axus@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some kind of Name System?

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 points 2 weeks ago

Perhaps organised into some sort of domains for clarity?

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just make your IP addresses pronouncable words like feed:deaf:babe:beef:cafe:: problem solved ez (working 2023!)

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But you're limited to a-f. I wonder if anyone's figured out how many addresses are actually possible with that system.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

throw some 1337 speek in there and you're all set!

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think that's just 6^32, no? (Amount of options^string length). Which is 7958661109E24.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, calculation of the amount of possible strings containing only a-f is trivial. But the idea is for addresses to be memorable. So I'm wondering how many strings which are valid IPv6 addresses are possible if you are limited to actual English (or, pick a language) 4-letter words containing only a-f. As someone mentioned, this could be expanded with 1337-speak.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Ahh right, that would be a bit more difficult to calculate.

I guess you could make a script which just bruteforces all combinations of a-f against an English dictionary. I might try to do that tonight.

[–] feannag@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of three word location.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's cool, but I'm sure it broke the relationship between ip addresses. Like it would be hard to tell if 1 IP was 1 higher or lower than another/ in the same /28 subnet, etc

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

maybe they could be sorted alphabetically to give you an idea, but yeah, it'd be harder to know for sure without a mixed format like

worda:wordb::f1

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

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