(Almost) All You Need To Know About IPv6 359
Butterspoon tips us to an article in Ars Technica titled "Everything you need to know about IPv6." Perhaps not quite "everything"; the article doesn't try to explain the reasons behind IPv6's meager adoption since its introduction 12 years ago. But it should be regarded as essential reading for anyone overly comfortable with their IPv4 addresses. Quoting: "As of January 1, 2007, 2.4 billion of those [IPv4 addresses] were in (some kind of) use. 1.3 billion were still available and about 170 million new addresses are given out each year. So at this rate, 7.5 years from now, we'll be clean out of IP addresses; faster if the number of addresses used per year goes up. Are you ready for IPv6?"
Web 2.0 (Score:5, Funny)
All you need to know... (Score:5, Funny)
Forget IPv6 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Web 2.0 (Score:5, Funny)
I think that's why it's called Web 2.0. Because it's two more than IPv4.
Is it stable? Can old systems use it? (Score:4, Funny)
I am running a i386. Should I just stick with IPv2?
Peak Internets! (Score:5, Funny)
Ted Stevens (R-Pork): As my colleagues from across the aisle are pointing out, we're facing Peak Internets. Clearly what we need is to open up drilling in IPNAR (Internet Protocol National Address Reserve) and start drilling in those unused /8s. We need more tubes!
Ted Kennedy (D-Ham): Sure, how about 34.0.0.0/8, Halliburton?
Dick Cheney (R-Oil): Suck it, Ted. Your union buddies in 19.0.0.0/8, Ford Motor Company, ain't long for this world anyways.
Senator BOFH (I-Maginary): Umm, dudes? I didn't know DEC was still around, let alone still owned (16.0.0.0/8), and do enough people still go to Interop (45.0.0.0/8) that it deserves a whole frickin' /8 to itself?
FCC: All of y'all, shaddap. The telcos paid us good money to put us in charge of this little exercise, so we'll take it from here. Everybody switches to IPv6 on our timetable. It shouldn't take us much longer than it took to phase out analog TV.
Applying the gates response... (Score:5, Funny)
May i be the first person to say (Score:5, Funny)
You heard it here first. iThankyou.
Re:Maybe IPv4 is the solution to spam. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:May i be the first person to say (Score:3, Funny)
Kindest Regards,
Dr Toreo Asesino, BSc, MSc, GeneralLikerOfComplexAndGeekyThings (From the 'longer-is-better' department)
Re:Web 2.0 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Meager adoption (Score:2, Funny)
Thanks to the magic of port forwarding, you can take advantage of all of them! Squee!
Re:May i be the first person to say (Score:1, Funny)
There's no place like localhost?
I don't get it. I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN IT. The quote is "There's no place like HOME."
"There's no place like ~", maybe. 127.0.0.1 / 0:0:0:0:0:0:...(however freaking many 0s there are in stupid ipv6):1 is not, nor has it ever been, called "home", by anyone.
Please stop with the nonsensical jokes.
Re:Web 2.0 (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Running out of IPv4 (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, relax, Chicken Little. Once we run out of IPv4 addresses for our NATs, we'll just stick all those NAT's behind other NAT's. Pretty soon we'll just have one IP address tied to one NAT that everybody shares and the problem will be solved.
Re:Web 2.0 (Score:2, Funny)
More like Web O.o
Re:All you need to know... (Score:2, Funny)