The internet is running out?

MikeHiow · 25 Jan 2011 at 17:21

It'll be a huge mess. Expect to see NAT at the provider level before widespread IPV6 adoption.

Of course, IANA running out of allocations does not mean we have run out, either. It is further delegated from localised "authorities" beyond there (Ie. RIPE for europe).

The laziness toward ipv6 is a real shame, and will see people that need a routable IP at all be treated largely like those who require a static IP now - only worse.

Amp34 · 25 Jan 2011 at 18:14

Well I've downloaded 99.8% of the internet so far so as long as it doesn't run out sooner than *checks download windows* 362 hours, 23 minutes and 53 seconds I don't care!

markweatherill · 25 Jan 2011 at 18:26

I don't see why we can't just colour code IP addresses.

Seeing as it's probably the Chinese using them all up, let them reuse some of ours but colour them yellow, for example. Russia and surrounding can have red ones.
And so on.

Alternatively just allow them the use of numbers higher than 255. I note we don't seem to be making use of those right now.

Dirk · 25 Jan 2011 at 18:34

I've read the entire internet now so i don't mind if it runs out.

It was a thrilling tale although the plot was a bit disparate... and i'm not entirely sure all the naked pictures were necessary to advancing the story!

Antar Bolaeisk · 25 Jan 2011 at 18:41

markweatherill said:
I don't see why we can't just colour code IP addresses.

Seeing as it's probably the Chinese using them all up, let them reuse some of ours but colour them yellow, for example. Russia and surrounding can have red ones.
And so on.

Alternatively just allow them the use of numbers higher than 255. I note we don't seem to be making use of those right now.

Well that's one of the things IPv6 is doing only the number are being represented in hex.

For example, my IPv6 address is apparently 2001:838:2:1::30:XXXX

AceTK · 25 Jan 2011 at 18:44

Amp34 said:
Well I've downloaded 99.8% of the internet so far so as long as it doesn't run out sooner than *checks download windows* 362 hours, 23 minutes and 53 seconds I don't care!

lol, yeah.

Everythings got to be somewhere and I go everywhere!

Narj · 25 Jan 2011 at 18:50

If I remember rightly, one of the biggest problems is huge companies like IBM and AT&T owning class A chunks and refusing to let them go or split any off, despite not using a large proportion of the address ranges... :rolleyes:

Amp34 · 25 Jan 2011 at 19:00

I assume class A chinks are the xxx.168.1.1 ones?

Janesy B · 25 Jan 2011 at 19:15

Is the internet running out? Bless.

RadoX · 25 Jan 2011 at 19:16

JayMax said:
I have enough trouble remembering IPv4 addresses. Remembering IPv6 hex addresses should be a hoot.

dns

branddaly · 25 Jan 2011 at 19:37

RadoX said:
dns

Nowt difficult about remembering the addresses;

2001:470:1f::feed:face:dead:beef

russ0r · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:18

Khaaan! said:
TBH, nobody should need to worry about IPV6 addresses running out, at all.

Yup. And 640k of memory should be enough for anybody

DiscoDave · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:21

RadoX said:
dns

Technical Administrators (sysadmins, network admins, network engineers, etc) as well as students will still need to learn and understand the IPv6 addressing mechanism. DNS won't solve everything.

DiscoDave · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:23

iviv said:
While ipv6 will fix the problem, how many ISPs are ready for it? Heck, how many routers are ready for it? It's going to be far more of a mess than the millennium bug was.

To be honest I think we'll see a lot of ipv6 over ipv4 (or "6to4" as its affectionately known) before we get a lot of standard ipv6 adoption.

Eliot · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:27

i like how ip6 has nearly as many ip addresses as the number of atoms in earth

deadite66 · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:28

DiscoDave said:
To be honest I think we'll see a lot of ipv6 over ipv4 (or "6to4" as its affectionately known) before we get a lot of standard ipv6 adoption.

or even worse isp's pre nat'ing people.

JayMax · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:30

RadoX said:
dns

Jeez... do some of you people actually think that DNS just magically configures itself!!?? :confused:

I wish it did.....

Inquisitor · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:38

Eliot said:
i like how ip6 has nearly as many ip addresses as the number of atoms in earth

Yeah, it's only off by 12 orders of magnitude :confused:

(That's one trillion times as many atoms in the Earth as there are IPv6 addresses)

Janesy B · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:50

Eliot said:
i like how ip6 has nearly as many ip addresses as the number of atoms in earth

Omg lol.

Cosimo · 25 Jan 2011 at 22:15

Eliot said:
i like how ip6 has nearly as many ip addresses as the number of atoms in earth

Great, we can stop worrying for the next 100 years.