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Maybe because IPv6 digits are hexadecimal? and we also have DNS service for that.

> Maybe because IPv6 digits are hexadecimal?

Mostly for us humans of course.

IPv4 addresses are generally in base-10, but binary and octal can also technically be used (on the CLI).

My favorite IPv4 schema is a uint32. Lots of squinting and head scratching every time it pops up