Posted on 09/24/2015 1:35:40 PM PDT by ShadowAce
They're being given out for free with every new EBT account.
My instructor told me everything on the Internet is free, and if it's not free, ask again.
Wifi on a fridge is a joke. I don’t want my fridge on the net.
“Interwebz”, really?
It’s 32768 IPv4’s worth.
4,000,000,000 x 32768 = 1.31x1014
ipv6 is 3.4x1036
I don’t want my fridge on the net.
Yes, but the feds do. So they can track your power usage, detect food usage by algorithm, and shut you off when they declare you are a burden to the system.
If you look at the way they are allocating space, I would not be surprised at all if we run out of IPv6 in my lifetime.
“if you build it, they will come.”
True, there are combinations in V4 that can’t be used.
Well, the Feds can go fsck themselves.
So this says that - in stock market terms - the primary offering has been allotted. It seems to me nothing prevents person A who owns a /24 for example selling that subnet to person B at whatever price person B chooses to pay for it.
They say “They ain’t making any more real estate”. But real estate is bought and sold every day.
Potentially same thing here.
Then of course there is —— NAT. So in practical terms nothing really changes here.
“When we designed the Internet 40 years ago, we did some calculations and estimated that 4.3 billion terminations ought to be enough for an experiment. Well, the experiment escaped the lab,” said Vint Cerf, the ARIN chairman who is often dubbed the father of the internet.
Hmmmm,
I thought Al Gore invented the internet....
Excellent point. I was also thinking about those older companies holding big blocks of addresses, many of which they won't use. As you say, IBM holds all of the 9 network (9.0.0.0). Just like large landowners can subdivide their property and sell off portions, these large subnet holders can subdivide their addresses. Most people think of 255.255.255.0 masks to derive their subnet, rather than 255.0.0.0 for these old companies. A quarter century ago I set up routers and thought there were plenty of addresses; back then there were.
We’re already out. I overestimated.
Not everything can be natted, though. If you think about it, most home users are behind at least 2 NATs (ISP DHCP and home router/switch DHCP). For those of us running services from our home devices, having a public IP address is necessary.
I’ve already got my own public IPv6 address, but not everything routes to it properly. Squat on an address range when you can, because they’ll eventually be used up.
I mean - OK IPV4 exhaustion is a real thing. I’m just saying that there are 2 mitigations.
1. NAT - without which we would have run out eons ago.
2. Reselling address blocks - just like any other commodity - just because something has been sold once doesn’t preclude it from being sold again - on the “secondary market”.
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