The internet is running out?
- Thread starter dl8860
- Start date
lol
When they are at that camp with thousands of people, and they have a single pc and everyone has to take it in turn, for 20 seconds
Permabanned
- Joined
- 9 Aug 2009
- Posts
- 12,234
- Location
- UK
The IPV4 address space is runing out. Thankfully there's a bit more to the Internet than that.
Soldato
- Joined
- 19 Dec 2006
- Posts
- 9,262
- Location
- Saudi Arabia né Donegal
Authentic IPv4 address for sale, one careful previous owner, only €200,000!
Since IPv4 addresses are becoming rare commodities this price can only increase so BUY NOW before it's too late!
!!!!!!!
It was ridiculously short sighted of him to only allow for about 4.5 billion addresses. At least with IPv6 there's no chance of running out since there's so many possibilities.
Since IPv4 addresses are becoming rare commodities this price can only increase so BUY NOW before it's too late!
!!!!!!!
It was ridiculously short sighted of him to only allow for about 4.5 billion addresses. At least with IPv6 there's no chance of running out since there's so many possibilities.
Well.... yeah, that's rather obvious; not really relevant in direct context to this discussion though?
It's not just the sheer address range that has to be considered. We have to remember that in the very early years of the Internet we were subject to classfull addressing, which resulted in people being allocated blocks of IP addresses with much more than what they needed. There are still a number of organisations with class A addresses, which probably isn't needed, some of which have relinquished their block back to the "pool".
Ipv6 doesn't just give us a larger address space, there's a lot more efficiency, security and scalability, amongst other things.
Is it? Ip is not a hard coded burnt in address. How could it possibly be deleted if a console dies, as the xbox would be a device on the LAN with a private address.The wan address would be assigned to the router
Last edited:
Will my epenis fall off if the internet runs out!?!!!!
No it will be restored to it's normal size.
Soldato
- Joined
- 19 Dec 2006
- Posts
- 9,262
- Location
- Saudi Arabia né Donegal
Is it? Ip is not a hard coded burnt in address. How could it possibly be deleted if a console dies, as the xbox would be a device on the LAN with a private address.The wan address would be assigned to the router
I don't think it's deleted but once used they obviously can't use the same address with another console since it would crash the internet if they were both on at the same time (companies have to be very careful about this as it can lead to a lot of embarrassment much like the great 1993 crash caused by Google).
Perhaps they do something similar to phone companies whereby the ip addresses are put back into circulation if they haven't registered against a server after a certain point in time.
Your console will just be behind a NAT...
Think your missing the point, the xbox doesn't get assigned a public address as it's a Natted device. Your router will be the public facing device which will either have a static ip address or dynamic from your ISP
lol
When they are at that camp with thousands of people, and they have a single pc and everyone has to take it in turn, for 20 seconds
Uh... There was a ghost! and uh.. ectoplasm!
Soldato
- Joined
- 3 Jun 2005
- Posts
- 5,365
- Location
- West Sussex
Is it? Ip is not a hard coded burnt in address. How could it possibly be deleted if a console dies, as the xbox would be a device on the LAN with a private address.The wan address would be assigned to the router
He's joking
Don't be silly. You are probably getting confused with the console's unique ID (within the console's keyvault). This has nothing to do with it's IP address though.
