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Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ip-address-in-every-pot dept.

miladus writes "According to a story at Zdnet, Asian countries are running out of IP addresses. China, for example, was assigned 22 million IP addresses (for a population of 1.3 billion) under IPv4. The US owns 70 percent of current IP addresses. Perhaps IPv6 will solve the problem."

3 of 732 comments (clear)

  1. Corporations are at fault? by sinergy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I personally know of many large corporations that have several Class-B networks that they use for non-accessible internal routing. I'm sure their numbers are much higher than just the one's I've come across. Couldn't somebody review who has all of those assigned addresses and help(force) them to migrate to private ranges?

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  2. Re:They should really swap to IPV6 then.. by Sexy+Commando · · Score: 5, Informative
    China and Japan will invest millions to develop IPv6. For example, June last year, both governments pledged US$32 million into network construction and testing, system development, application technology development and standardization, she said

    RTFA

  3. Re:IPv6? Yes because NAT is too limited by jcdr · · Score: 5, Informative

    NAT is pefect to extend the network of one single entity, but is a very limited solution to extend the network to several entity.

    If you have only one public adresse you have a single port for each services. Despite the fact that most services can extended by virtual one this is not the case for all of them (think SSH, or IPSec for example) and this require a high degre of coordination between the entity.

    So IPv6 could be the cheapest way to solve the problem. And this could provids a good boost to the network market...