Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption 122
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."
More Nigerian spam mail because of more computers (Score:5, Funny)
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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!
I knew Angelina Jolie would trigger ... (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:'Africa' is a racist term (Score:3, Funny)
The continent formally known as Africa?
Re:Slackers! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Simple (Score:5, Funny)
because most African networks are being created and not migrated.
Of course. African networks are non-migratory.
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.
Re:Simple solution (Score:1, Funny)
There are 10 types of people in this world.
Those that understand BINARY, and those that dont.
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Simple solution (Score:1, Funny)
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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 (Score:2, Funny)
Otherwise we'd have to worry about the network speed of an unladen African network.
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]
Re:Simple (Score:3, Funny)