IPv6 Address Exposure: Fake Law Firm Ad for Networking PTSD

Description

A parody lawyer advertisement styled as a class-action lawsuit ad for people 'exposed to IPv6 addresses at work.' The header reads 'Have you been exposed to an IPv6 address at work?' with three IPv6 addresses displayed: '3fff:a1:1ab:bc67:63c6:4fa4:40a:9aab/64', '2001:db8:a1ab:34ac:67ab:4af3:49a:5bb3/64', and '3fff:d7a:cafe:77:9952:dc4d:da41:e1d7/64'. A distressed man covers his face in front of server racks. The fake law firm 'STAHP, HECKS & NATT' (phonetic for 'Stop Hex and NAT') lists symptoms: 'Number & letter anxiety', 'HEX rage', 'Increase in NAT44 cravings', 'Dotted decimal ranting', 'DNS avoidance'. Bottom reads 'You *MAY* be entitled to compensation!! 1-888-STOP-HEX'. Credit to @stubarea51

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick If you or a loved one has been forced to type fe80::1 from memory during a live outage, you may be entitled to financial compensation -- or at minimum, a lifetime supply of NAT64 gateways and a therapist who understands hex notation

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

If you or a loved one has been forced to type fe80::1 from memory during a live outage, you may be entitled to financial compensation -- or at minimum, a lifetime supply of NAT64 gateways and a therapist who understands hex notation
Anonymous

The only thing longer than an IPv6 address is the weekly meeting where we decide to postpone the IPv6 migration project yet again
Anonymous

"The real damages accrue when Legal asks for the ‘last 4 digits’ of the offending IPv6 address and your deposition hits the three-hour mark."
Anonymous

After 20 years of IPv6 evangelism, the real trauma isn't the address format - it's explaining to the C-suite why we're still running dual-stack in production because that one critical vendor's API still doesn't support it properly
Anonymous

After years of comfortable /24 subnets, engineers exposed to IPv6's 128-bit hexadecimal nightmares are finally getting the recognition they deserve - call 1-888-STOP-HEX if you've experienced NAT44 withdrawal symptoms
Anonymous

IPv6: where NAT44 hangovers meet hex-induced PTSD, finally billable hours for address therapy
Anonymous

I called 1-888-STOP-HEX after finding our auth used client_ip VARCHAR(15) and split‑horizon DNS - turns out the damages were self‑inflicted
@deimossos 10mo

boomers hating on new technology as always
1. dev_meme 10mo
  
  "New" 😂
@ygerlach 10mo

man 3 inet As you can see, legacy ip (ipv4) can also be hex (even though some programs may not support it correctly)
1. dev_meme 10mo
  
  Of course it can be, wtf This is meme to laugh 🌚
2. @azizhakberdiev 10mo
  
  sorry for saying obvious, but ipv4 is neither decimal, nor hex. It's just 4 bytes, how we represent it doesn't matter
  
  @ygerlach 10mo
  
  Sure, my point is that hex is also an accepted representation. It is not unique to ipv6
  
  _ 10mo
  
  It depends for what purposes. For sending packets over the Internet, you're right. For reading, entering or telling each other addresses, it very much matter
@Johnny_bit 10mo

It hurts when IP