Computer Crash Test: Will Your Internet Access Come to a Screeching Halt on June 8?

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I am not sure I understand how the new address will work
123.456.789.255 old

123.456.789.123.456.789 new

Am I right?

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Not quite, they are in hex format to allow the great range.

An IPv6 address is represented as eight groups of four hexadecimal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal) digits, each group representing 16 bits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit) (two octets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_%28computing%29)). The groups are separated by colons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_%28punctuation%29) (:). An example of an IPv6 address is
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334.

[LAURENU2]

OH that's going to be a real pain in the Beep