Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s
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from the need-to-join-a-new-pool dept.
from the need-to-join-a-new-pool dept.
Zocalo writes "For those of you keeping score, ICANN just allocated another four /8 IPv4 blocks; 23/8 and 100/8 to ARIN, 5/8 and 37/8 to RIPE, leaving just seven /8s unassigned. In effect however, this means that there are now just two /8s available before the entire pool will be assigned due to an arrangement whereby the five Regional Internet Registries would each automatically receive one of the final five /8s once that threshold was met. The IPv4 Address Report counter at Potaroo.net is pending an update and still saying 96 days, but it's now starting to look doubtful that we're going to even make it to January."
Re:Soo... (Score:4, Funny)
IPv6 Compatability (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh noes! (Score:5, Funny)
How will I ever be able to use my twittering armchair fart detector?
Well, you'll have to choose between a NAT twittering armchair fart detector and an IPv6 twittering armchair fart detector!
Re:I wish we could... (Score:4, Funny)
If we are to do that then the address field of the packet header should be a null-terminated string, not a fixed or limited size.
Note that if you embed the length in the header you have to decide how wide the length field is, which then limits the string length. Though I'll accept arguments to the effect that an 18e18-character address should be enough for anyone.
Dibs!!! (Score:5, Funny)
How long before I can get the address 255.255.255.255? I wanna set up a website called 'endoftheinternet.com'!
Re:Maybe I'm being naive... (Score:4, Funny)
The colons and hex are for typing it in. It stored in 16 bytes on disk, just like ipv4 addresses are stored in 4 bytes currently. There are lots of ways of representing a v6 address, though, just like there are lots of ways of representing a v4 address (hex, being among them, iirc, and for a while firefox would let you type in the unsigned integer that the 4 bytes represent and would translate that directly.)
The rest of us will just use a lookup service to map an easily remembered string to the v6 numerical address. At the moment, though, I'm not sure I cann think of an analogous service for ipv4, but I'm sure someone's doing it.
Re:Soo... (Score:3, Funny)
There's ipv6.facebook.com
phew. I was beginning to get worried!
Re:Meh. Allocate 240.0.0.0/4. (Score:1, Funny)
...thus solving the problem once and for all!