2010-11-30

Where did the internet all go so quickly?

A further 4 /8's have been allocated in November it seems, so we are down to only 7 /8's left. I understand that when we get to 5 the RIRs get one last /8 each.

This could mean we are literally weeks from an empty IANA pool of IPv4s.

Whats the betting IPv4 will run out before Christmas!

6 comments:

  1. Personally, I blame all the people who think NAT is a bad thing. ;-)

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  2. "Whats the betting IPv4 will run out before Christmas!"

    Run out as in all /8 allocated?
    Run out as in ISPs don't have any IPs to assign?
    Run out as in ... ?

    :)

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  3. The log of #A&A will show that I predicted 'by Christmas' last night... Obviously, that's run out at IANA, not the RIRs

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  4. I am talking of IANA of course.
    But that is when people start changing policies and when the news starts...

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  5. That the news that makes it sound like the end of the world and advises people that they won't be able to put anymore devices on the internet, I mean, they are clueless, afterall

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  6. I'd rather the press made it sound like the end of the world - forcing the router manufacturers to finally start taking ipv6 seriously, than the current situation TBH.

    It's insane that, potentially less than a month from the IANA exhaustion, I can't walk into PC World and buy an ipv6 capable DSL router.

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