Internet address system set for major upgrade [Web has officially run out of existing IP addresses]

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[zeugma]

Cerf basically says that IPv6 is the production version. We've all been working on an experiment these past few decades.

I've always thought the internet seemed more like a beta test than anything else.

[zeugma]

Comcast has announced that in addition each home account will get a static /64 subnet in the IPv6 address space.

That’s 2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique IP addresses per home. Should be enough awhile :-).

That's just stupid and insanely wasteful. The equivalent of an IPv4 class B network (2¹⁶ = 65,536) would be more than enough for any but the largest networks. Hell, even a class A network (2²⁴ = 16,777,216) would be far less insane than a /64 IPv6 subnet. Comcast shouldn't be given more than a single /64 for its use, and even at that, it could still  give everyone a IPv4 class A address block and have tons to spare.

[dayglored]

> I have tools at home on my primary workstation that it is useful to me to be able to access from anywhere via ssh. I would be really pissed if I couldn’t get home.

15 years ago I reached my home SSh server on DHCP roadrunner cable by using a program I wrote that determined whenever the current dynamic public IP changed, and sent it to me in email.

Later I switched to using DynDNS, when my outfacing router supported it.

These days I use a variety of outbound client protocols, depending on need... LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, Skype... Mainly because I’m behind a couple levels of firewalls and routers these days for other reasons.

If my DSL provider offers a public IP for a reasonable price and I feel I need one, I’ll pay for it.

[dayglored]

> That’s just stupid and insanely wasteful.

Yep. Sorta defeats the whole point of having a big address space. It’ll just be sparse as hell again. And “fill up” just like the IPv4 space did.

Sigh.

[OB1kNOb]