"jmesnil" wrote : in UUIDGenerator.generateTimeBasedUUID, we use only the 1st 4
bytes of the address so that it works with IPv4 (4 bytes), IPv4 (16 bytes) and MAC (6
bytes).
I don't think that will work. If you truncate the address we'll lose uniqueness.
It needs to be a ipv4 address or nothing, since that is the only thing that fits in 4
bytes.
MAC and IPv6 address is useless for this algorithm since they are too big.
If we can't get an ipv4 address we should just use a random.
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