IPv4 Unallocated Addresses Exhausted by 2010 419
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica is reporting on how the unallocated IPv4 address pool could run out as soon as 2010. The IPv4 Address Report gives details on just how fast the available pool of IPv4 addresses is diminishing. Will ISPs be moving towards IPv6 any time soon? Or will IPv4 exhaustion become the next Y2K?"
everything is going to be ok (Score:5, Funny)
Re:From TFA: free pr0n! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:it's tghe next Y2k (Score:5, Funny)
Re:VoIp Everything (Score:4, Funny)
Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:it's tghe next Y2k (Score:5, Funny)
We've been in various stages of Imminent Death of the Net Predicted [catb.org] for at least 25 years. Y2K was merely the last version, and running out of IPv4 is merely the current version.
Just wait until we abandon CSS in order to ensure that an entire page can be rendered by through a single TCP/IPv6 connection. Domain names with vowels! HTML with serifed fonts! Imminent Death of Web 2.0 predicted!
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
Let's just NAT (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
That's the same IP address I've got on my luggage!
Re:Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:From TFA: free pr0n! (Score:3, Funny)
It worked with IPv4.
Although I shudder to think back to the days of downloading pr0n on a 14.4k modem!
Re:Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:it's tghe next Y2k (Score:3, Funny)
Besides by the time they bother to implement it it will all fall apart with the year 2038 problem anyway.
Is Bogon List Space Considered (Score:2, Funny)
So in a back alley in the future (Score:4, Funny)
Do it gradually (Score:2, Funny)
Re:everything is going to be ok (Score:2, Funny)
That sounds like a direct quote of half the script from 24.
DNA migration (Score:1, Funny)
The next protocol IPV6 will support secure internet acces to orphan children, to unmarried mothers, to the girls without parents, to people in the blacklists of the CIA, the FBI and Interpol, to the people wrong imprisoned, to the blind and imbeciles, to the jews, the african muslims, to the pakistanies, to the brazilian and vietnamese children, to the lebanese christians, to every GNU programmer in Vermont and of course, i will be using IPV6 from my grave on the pet cemetary.
That's what means "With liberty and *conectivity* for all"
The migration process is *not going to hurt...
THE correct answer (Score:3, Funny)
anything else?
Re:it's tghe next Y2k (Score:2, Funny)
Just wait until we abandon CSS in order to ensure that an entire page can be rendered by through a single TCP/IPv6 connection. Domain names with vowels! HTML with serifed fonts! Imminent Death of Web 2.0 predicted!
Cats and dogs, lying together ... mass hysteria!
In case they start embargoin' our IPs, see... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Reshuffle existing IPv4 space (Score:3, Funny)
True, but the OP did say "company." DoD isn't really playing in the same league as HP. (Despite HP's best efforts to go into the spying business.) Besides, DoD was responsible for DARPA, which was responsible for the early Internet, so I figure if one group deserves an absurd allocation, it is probably them.
Well, think about it... If you were desperate for an IP and you needed to take somebody else's, who would you pick a fight with?!
Re:Reshuffle existing IPv4 space (Score:3, Funny)
So that's... about 330 MILLION IP addresses for the US DoD alone? And people bitch about MIT hoarding!
Perhaps, but when contemplating prying them loose the phrase "you and what army?" may need literal consideration.