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Comment by flerchin

7 days ago

You're really confident about this, but I just can't find where hosts is different than addresses when we're talking about IPv4.

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Hikikomori  6 days ago

You see how you can have an IP address that is not assigned or used on something? So amount of IPv4 addresses > IPv4 hosts.

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