The internet is full

[natty]

Only a couple hundred million IPs left.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/less_than_1_year_until_the_internet_runs_out_of_addresses.php

Currently the Web largely uses IPv4, Internet Protocol version 4. Each IPv4 address is limited to a 32-bit number, which means there are a maximum of just over 4 billion unique addresses. IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol and uses a 128-bit address, so it supports a vastly larger number of unique addresses. Enough, in fact, to give every person on the planet over 4 billion addresses! Update: Dave Evans, Chief Technologist of the Internet Business Solutions Group at Cisco, wrote in to advise that "it's closer to 50 thousand trillion trillion addresses per person." (reference)

[Hawk]

time to invade a couple more countries?

[natty]

It's like the treasury printing more money, they're just printing more internets.

[pstall]

I read some wacky conspiracy theory(hmm, well aren't most wacky?) about in 2020 or maybe sooner there was supposed to be a massive takedown of the net and do internet 2.0.

People were all worried about it.

[Carolina Husker]

Not really an issue. We use IPv6 at work already.

[lightsout]

If they take down the internet...guess I'll be goin' out to Californi.....hear they got lots of internet out there...

[C47]

If they take down the internet...guess I'll be goin' out to Californi.....hear they got lots of internet out there...

:hurray: free wifi for all!!!......that was a hilarious episode of South Park btw....

[Davidson Deac II]

Not really an issue. We use IPv6 at work already.

We have the capability of using it, but to convert would be a massive and expensive project

[Davidson Deac II]

Only a couple hundred million IPs left.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/less_than_1_year_until_the_internet_runs_out_of_addresses.php

Actually there is a lot more left than that. Many companies purchased far more IP space than they really need. The company I work for owns five class B's. Most of them became part of the company thru mergers, but thats still a lot of overkill. Especially considering that we use private address space internally and nat everything behind a relatively small pool of addresses.

[jasonluckydog]

Who knew Prince was right after all.

[The Saltman]

no, this guy is full

[Carolina Husker]

Actually there is a lot more left than that. Many companies purchased far more IP space than they really need. The company I work for owns five class B's. Most of them became part of the company thru mergers, but thats still a lot of overkill. Especially considering that we use private address space internally and nat everything behind a relatively small pool of addresses.

I work for an ISP. We used to give out as many static IPs as our customers wanted, for free; we still do that, but not they at least have to justify them to us so we can get them from ARIN. But yeah, I'd be willing to bet a large portion of them are just plain wasted.

[natty]

Hell, it's probably safe to say that most IPs aren't being used.

[UCaneFanII]

Who knew Prince was right after all.

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