Official: North America is COMPLETELY OUT of new IPv4 addresses

The Register ^ | 24 September 2015 | Chris Williams

[ShadowAce]

[WayneS]

This is hugh and series...

[Uncle Miltie]

Are you logged on?

[Dacula]

My beeper is stunned

[dfwgator]

Curran told The Register now is the time to move your website or organization over to IPv6, a space that "contains enough address space to sustain the internet for generations."

Bet it won't last a single generation before it's filled up.

[oh8eleven]

All your IPv4 addresses are belong to us.

[ShadowAce]

Bet it won't last a single generation before it's filled up.

I don't think you fully grasp just how large a space ipv6 actually is.

[InterceptPoint]

IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, and there are 3.4 × 1038 available – that's 340 undecillion, although, practically speaking, 42 undecillion are usable. Plenty, in other words.

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Mommy, mommy. When I grow up I want to be an Undecillionaire like Donald Trump.

[edh]

“that’s 340 undecillion”

That also happens to be the proposed grand total of the National Debt once OHaHa leaves office!

Goals! The Feds have goals!

[WayneS]

Yes. It’s very large. But you seem to be forgetting that I have personally reserved 3.39 × 10^38 of the available addresses for my own use...

[ShadowAce]

ROTFL!!

[taxcontrol]

Not really that big of a deal.

Simply offer non carrier companies a couple of blocks of v6 address space in exchange for a class A space. Make the change over free and after a year or two, start raising the price of /8 address space via annual registration.

For example, IBM holds the 9 network (9.0.0.0). HP holds the 15 and 16 networks. Others include Ford, Halliburton, Prudential and USPS. DOD holds another 10 or 11 /8 assignments last I checked.

Eventually move the v6 zero net (0:0:0:0:0:ffff:????:????) to be non routed internal addresses only like RFC 1918 addresses.

[ShadowAce]

Yeah--I'm not a fan of ipv6 myself. With NATting and other tools, ipv4 should be able to handle everything we have today.

The NAT may have to occur at higher levels, but it's still possible.

[Lazamataz]

IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, and there are 3.4 × 1038 available – that's 340 undecillion, although, practically speaking, 42 undecillion are usable. Plenty, in other words.

We'll be out of addresses by Tuesday.

[ShadowAce]

Is that AM, or PM?

[Swordmaker]

It's official. The USA has reached the end of the INTERNET! We've run out of IPv4 32 bit addresses for computers, websites, etc! The well has run dry. . . all new addressing will have to be IPv6 — PING!

You've Reached the End of the Internet!
Ping!

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If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Covenantor]

I, for one, am relieved by this news. My Samsung Wi-Fi fridge can have it's own domain name, aka Beer Cornucopia, assuring a constant supply of fresh brewsksis delivered in timely fashion.

It was a long wait but finally the interwebz have serious uses.

:-)

[SamAdams76]

When I was obtaining my MCSE certification back in the 1990s, when the internet was still relatively new, our instructor told us that eventually the 4 billion plus IP addresses would run out. It seemed hard to believe back then. Of course, we didn’t anticipate IP addresses being assigned to refrigerators and garage door openers.

[Flick Lives]

"Who used up all the IP4 addresses?!"