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   Lukas (karotte@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 02:07:34 JST Lukas

   Mildly cursed factoid about UNC paths:

   - UNC Paths can contain IP addresses such as \\192.168.1.1\share
   - IPv6 addresses are supported as well
   - IPv6 addresses contain colons
   - can't have colons in Windows paths since colons are reserved for drive letters

   So Microsoft came up with the the ipv6-literal.net domain that's special-cased by Windows so you can to write IPv6 addresses in UNC paths as 2a0e-3c0--21.ipv6-literal.net without it hitting any resolvers.