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The Internet has run out of IP addresses (sort of).....

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Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the devices and domains on the Internet and allow them to communicate with each other and send information back and forth.

And we're running out of them.

So is this the end of the Internet? No, not even close. In fact, there are in the neighborhood of 340 trillion trillion trillion brand new IP addresses just waiting to be snatched up. But it is, in a way, the end of the Internet as we know it.....snip~

The Internet has run out of IP addresses (sort of) - CBS News
 
MMC said:
What say ye?
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Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the devices and domains on the Internet and allow them to communicate with each other and send information back and forth.

And we're running out of them.

So is this the end of the Internet? No, not even close. In fact, there are in the neighborhood of 340 trillion trillion trillion brand new IP addresses just waiting to be snatched up. But it is, in a way, the end of the Internet as we know it.....snip~

The Internet has run out of IP addresses (sort of) - CBS News
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They have been saying that for years (think I heard it the first time around 2006)..... and it is not true. Usual uninformed fear mongering bs from the media and it has zero impact on the average user.
 
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Industry wise, most of the core company's who provide the ISP's their access have had IPv6 addressing in plan now for years. IPv4 addresses while still available will now be going away over the next few years and possibly longer. Most home routers even are using "dual stacking" in which the cable or DSL modem has two addresses, one IPv4 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and one that is IPv6 (2016:0a42:42c9:1244:2200:3a1f:3999:8422) Our old addresses were 32 bit and used standard decimals, IPv6 is 128 bit and uses hexadecimals. The difference is pretty huge as a block of IP's using IPv6 could literally provide 18 million addresses.

I personally have been working on IPv4 to IPv6 conversions now at work for nearly 2 years. This new version will last the world quite a long time until I guess we switch to 256 bit IP's which may be as long as a novel's written page.
 
PeteEU said:
They have been saying that for years (think I heard it the first time around 2006)..... and it is not true. Usual uninformed fear mongering bs from the media and it has zero impact on the average user.
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You think CBS is fearmongering Pete? Why, they already show they have been prepared for this.



"What happened this week is for the first time, organizations qualified for block sizes (of addresses) we don't have," Richard Jimmerson, chief information officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), which registers and doles out IP addresses, told CBS News. "We are weeks away from having zero left."

Right now ARIN has about 130,000 remaining. That's not very many considering that when an Internet service provider (ISP) like Comcast buys IP addresses, they buy about a million at a time.....snip~
 
Could special characters be added to the mix to expand the number of addresses?
 
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Oh my god we're all gonna die
 
PerfectStorm said:
Could special characters be added to the mix to expand the number of addresses?
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No need, there is already a new system in place.. has been for many years. The one that is running out is the IPV4 system, but that has been repalced by the IPV6 system.
 
PeteEU said:
Actually I think it is a slow news day or something. If I remember right, the last time this was posted on these forums it was also based on a CBS link :)

http://www.debatepolitics.com/scien...addresses-less-than-year-experts-predict.html

my bad it was Fox News.. and it was 5 years ago when Fox News said there was a year till we ran out of IPs.
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Yeah this one was by CBS. Like they and Ockham said they have been prepared for this a couple of years now. Big companies like a few years ago.



CBS News/July 3, 2015, 6:00 AM

Many companies, such as Verizon Wireless and Comcast, started setting themselves up to use IPv6 years ago, so as the web world transitions into its next iteration, they'll be able to get their customers online using either protocol. (IPv6 won't replace IPv4; they'll run in tandem.)

But companies that haven't prepared could be in for a shock. They could have to rejigger their networks, setting up shared IP addresses in order to bring on new customers. Some may have to buy excess addresses from other companies for big bucks on secondary markets. And some may find they're simply unable to take on new business -- wireless carriers won't be able to provide web-enabled smartphones, ISPs will have to turn away people looking to add broadband, web hosting companies won't be able to build your new site -- until they're configured for IPv6......snip~ same link.
 
PeteEU said:
No need, there is already a new system in place.. has been for many years. The one that is running out is the IPV4 system, but that has been repalced by the IPV6 system.
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I understand that but wouldn't special characters even expand the IP universe as well......so that someone doesn't have to spend two ****ing years of a conversion?
 
PerfectStorm said:
I understand that but wouldn't special characters even expand the IP universe as well?
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I don't understand this stuff all the way but the new system uses hexadecimals so the number of available addresses will be some number we really don't even have a word for at this point.
 
PerfectStorm said:
I understand that but wouldn't special characters even expand the IP universe as well......so that someone doesn't have to spend two ****ing years of a conversion?
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No because you cant in the IPV4 standard. In fact you cant go over 255 in numbers... so 1.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255. That is the standard and how IPV4 has been implemented in network protocols since the start. You cant change that.
 
And, folks, don't worry about your computer being able to deal with IPv6...at least, if you are using Windows. I expect Apple and Linux have this covered as well.

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