Title text:
Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: xkcd.com/3150/
64 bytes from ocean: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3726d
xkcd #3150: Ping
Submitted 3 weeks ago by xkcdbot@lemmy.world [bot] to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ping.png
Comments
nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 3 weeks ago
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t get how this relates to icmpv6. Can someone explain? I read the explainxkcd and didn’t get it. It seems to make fun of icmp requests in general by pointing out the absurdity of pinging across an ocean using a message in a bottle but this joke would work for both ipv4 and ipv6
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A reminder that all packets are delivered on a “best effort” basis, and some packets will be simply dropped en route.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Would love to see them try this with the Message In a Bottle protocol. Would probably take a few centuries, but still…
“Hi, I’d like to hear a TCP joke.”
“Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?”
“Yes, I’d like to hear a TCP joke.”
“OK, I’ll tell you a TCP joke.”
“Ok, I will hear a TCP joke.”
“Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?”
“Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke.”
“Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline.”
“Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline.”
“I’m sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?”
IHawkMike@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’d tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s so baud
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Or you might, we just would have no way of knowing.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
You wo_ld nly ge a f_w pa_ts h_re _nd the_e.