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Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption
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timothy
on Wed Oct 01, 2008 02:22 PM
from the rising-tide-all-boats dept.
from the rising-tide-all-boats dept.
Ian Lamont writes "The recent news that China will run out of IPv4 addresses in a few years points to slow adoption of IPv6 in some developed countries. Now it turns out that the largest number of networks displaying new IPv6 address blocks are registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean. While AfriNIC has a smaller installed base than other regions, many countries in Africa are showing rapid growth in terms of online connectivity."
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More Nigerian spam mail because of more computers (Score:5, Funny)
Dear sirs, I am a prince of a country that's caught in war between using ipv4 and ipv6. If you deposit $100,000 I will promise you returns of 10,000 million IPv6 IP addresses. Please send me your account number, SSN, credit card details and other important detail that will help me facilitate the transaction.
Yours lovingly,
His Royal Highness Prince of some Nigerian tribe
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> His post got delayed by the transition mechanism.
or rather by the Beowulf of those.
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what's shocking is that it was 4 minutes before first post!
Simple (Score:5, Informative)
Latecomers (Score:2)
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It's not like it is getting cheaper for the earlier adopters to convert.
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)
because most African networks are being created and not migrated.
Of course. African networks are non-migratory.
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I nearly woke up half the street HAH-ing to that one ;)
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Otherwise we'd have to worry about the network speed of an unladen African network.
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That was precisely my thought, it's not that they need the extra addresses or necessarily think they will in the foreseeable future, but everybody else is going that way and it's cheaper to do it now than to redo things in the future.
That being said, I'm not sure that I'd care to be responsible for saying that at some future time that ipv4 was a mistake for them.
And either way, everybody else is going ipv6, so they may as well.
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Precisely. This is why I tagged this article "duh" and encourage everyone else to do the same.
Makes sense (Score:5, Informative)
Considering that African nations have each a small fraction of the 16 million addresses that the GE corporation has, they need something better than NAT.
Re:Makes sense (Score:5, Informative)
That, and the lack of existing infrastructure that needs to be changed in order to meet IPv6. There probably wasn't a huge "switch" phase involved in having IPv6 deployed, whereas the western world is on IPv4, switching to IPv6 actually takes a lot of work.
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Speak for yourself, pink boy.
I knew Angelina Jolie would trigger ... (Score:4, Funny)
Being first has no benefit (Score:5, Interesting)
You need to enable IPv6 when IPv4 runs out around 2011 so that you can communicate with IPv6-only users. There's no benefit to turning it on early (unless you want to do debugging for vendors). Articles about how some country or another is "ahead" or "behind" in IPv6 are misguided because they're measuring the wrong thing. What is important is not who is running IPv6 today, but who is buying IPv6-capable equipment today so that they can turn it on "for free" in 2011.
Also, the summary propagates the old China IPv4 myth; in reality China will run out of IPv4 at the same time as the rest of the world.
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Re:Being first has no benefit (Score:4, Informative)
Except the project is not yet up and running, so it's quite useless even for those of us who do have IPv6 connectivity...
/Mikael
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Except the project is not yet up and running, so it's quite useless even for those of us who do have IPv6 connectivity...
So did you realize that before or after you got hooked up with IPv6?
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no there isn't, and i quote
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No benefit? You can get free porn via turning on ipv6.
You mean "eventually at some future unannounced date, but not right now". The last update was four months ago and it still says "coming soon".
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You need to enable IPv6 when IPv4 runs out around 2011 so that you can communicate with IPv6-only users. There's no benefit to turning it on early (unless you want to do debugging for vendors). Articles about how some country or another is "ahead" or "behind" in IPv6 are misguided because they're measuring the wrong thing. What is important is not who is running IPv6 today, but who is buying IPv6-capable equipment today so that they can turn it on "for free" in 2011.
You may not get much of a benefit, other
If you are just starting (Score:3, Insightful)
If you were building a network when you had nothing before, why not start with IPv6.
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Well, the rest of the world can't reach you.
I guess that could be considered a feature.
Nothing new at all (Score:3, Interesting)
A little too easy (Score:2, Interesting)
Its pretty easy to adopt a new standard when there was nothing in place yet to begin with, ...tops?
come on...what do they have over there 4 or 5 servers
Seriously, when I was offered a contract to develop a government project in Africa,
I was told there was so much corruption in government, that even if we developed our
software, it probably would not be used, as there was too many people wanting to
keep the present day systems, as this was the way they made the extra revenues, and
able to make their mortgages.
Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
I really don't know what is this fuss about lack of IP numbers.
If we already write them as xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt, why we stop at 255? We could simply go up to 999! Even better, we could use the letters too. Imagine all the possibilities if we take separately lower case and upper case!
And finally, when we exhaust these too, we could move to unicode.
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It's the maximum number that can be made with 8 bits in binary, and hence eight wires between to different chips at the hardware level. Instead of going to 999, it would have to either be:
(2 ^ 9) - 1 = 511 or
(2 ^ 10) - 1 = 1023
else you'd just be wasting a large section available bandwidth.
Not all of the world runs on the decimal system..
Hi, welcome to Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
You're right, but you still lose. You'll get the hang of it soon; stick with it.
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
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It has been done (Score:3, Funny)
The answer is, we don't. For an example of an IP address with numbers going over 255, watch this movie [imdb.com]
It's not Japan? (Score:2)
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Re:The US should pay attention (Score:5, Funny)
Well, after Congress rejected the bailout, the shares of Campbell Soup went up.
And I'm NOT making this up!
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Re:The US should pay attention (Score:5, Funny)
C'mon moderators, THIS SHIT IS NOT FUNNY!
From The Economist [economist.com]:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down by 7%, and suffered its biggest-ever points loss. Perhaps fittingly in an economy that is in danger of sliding into depression, the only stock among the 500 in the S&P index that finished higher was Campbell's Soup.
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Re:The US should pay attention (Score:5, Insightful)
Being modded funny doesn't mean they didn't believe you - true things can be funny too, although perhaps this is only funny in a "well, you've gotta laugh or you'd cry" kind of way.
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Campbell's Condensed soup, which you dilute with equal parts water, is ideal for stocking your emergency bunker.
(It's also damned nice. I particularly like their tomato and rice soup, which they've discontinued, sob. And I don't even have a bunker.)
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Wow, all that info, and not one suggestion for how someone trying to describe a continent's IP trends (which i agree, was pretty much a direct racists attack) should address that continent.
Notice, i dont know what to call it now either.
help a dude out man.
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For the info, the wikipedia article proposes 5 different etymologies, none related to this one.
Actually, I cannot even find references to a Greek king named Afros. The closer mythical Greek I found is Aphrodite, but that has a rather different connotation!
Really, you should not believe everything you read on the internet.
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Really, you should not believe everything you read on the internet.
I don't believe you! /waits for his head to explode from the paradox /remembers he's not a robot
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The continent formally known as Africa?
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And ... How would you propose that we call that entire continent ?
India?
Hey, it worked before...
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Jeez, the first new waves of botnets are from the third world. Script kiddies and mass mailers will be so proud!
Not really. You can't exactly scan an IPv6 range with the same efficiency as you can a IPv4 range. The chances of finding a live machine on the other end is really really really .... really small.
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I doubt 409ers could come from anywhere but africa. 409 is a reference to the Nigeria criminal code.
And that would be 419. 409 is a cleaner or a Beach Boys song.;)
The term '419' has become generalized since the orignal scams were so heavily located in Nigeria, but people use the term fairly generally.
The world is changing, brother (Score:2)
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Nigeria.