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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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what's shocking is that it was 4 minutes before first post!
Simple (Score:5, Informative)
Latecomers (Score:2)
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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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.
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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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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If you are just starting (Score:3, Insightful)
If you were building a network when you had nothing before, why not start with IPv6.
Nothing new at all (Score:3, Interesting)
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: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]
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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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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The continent formally known as Africa?
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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.