Oh Noes...we're out of IP addresses?



efeezy said:
Everyone stock up on water and supplies...all of you douche bags have burned through the 4 billion IP addresses allocated on IPv4 with your spam sites. Better start looking for a job I guess.

Are you ready for the big internet crunch? - CNN.com
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When it becomes an issue, we'll adapt.

My good friend over in China has been talking IPv6 for YEARS. He's seen this coming (as most of us have). All of his technology is IPv6-safe and he runs a blog about it.

It's great that he's on the forefront, but still... For most of us to worry about it for the past couple of years is a WOMBAT (Waste of Money Brains and Time).

I'm not worried until it affects our bottom lines. At that point, we'll take care of whatever we need to take care of.
 
IPv6 is already on the back burner to be used. The development of IPv6 is done. It's just a matter of when the ISPs start implementing it, i.e. when they personally run out of addresses to assign.

They are now working on IPv8.

There's nothing to be worrying about.
 
We saw this coming for years already...

I think whats going to end up happening is that Internet providers and such will be the first to use IPv6 for all the people hooking online, and that the last batch to migrate will be webservers and such itself.
 
Rexibit said:
They were researching IPv8 in 1999.

Learning about IPv8 and IPv16

IPv8 would be used mainly for IP privacy. You could scrap it and never even touch it again because there'd be a near infinite number of combinations for you.
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Right but we're so much closer to implementing IPv6, personal computers now support it, as well as DNS servers. And that would take care of the problem we currently have.
 
uplinked said:
ipv6 has enough ip addresses for every grain of sand in the universe
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When the minimum usable network is a /64 the beach starts to look a lot smaller. We're back to the classful days of "You've got a point to point link? Here's a class C. Don't worry, we've got 4 billion addresses."

Sean
 
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