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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."

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  1. Re:"Perhaps" IPV6 will solve the problem? by plague3106 · · Score: 1, Troll

    This works out to approximately 665,570,793,348,866,943,898,599 IP addresses per square meter of the surface of the planet Earth.

    I live in the 3rd dimension, and have 2 families living directly below me. Also keep in mind that the population of humans is growing pretty fast...so it may be possible to run out of IPv6 addresses too. How soon, who knows...but saying that it won't happen is like saying no one will ever need more then 640k of memory..

  2. Re:NAT China by SuperBanana · · Score: 1, Troll
    Then, with a little cleverness, they can have the whole address space available to them alone.

    Please explain to me how assigning ROUTEABLE addresses to people inside your private network is going to work?

    If there's a 1.2.3.4 in the real world, and you give Joe Shmoe on your private network 1.2.3.4, the router's gotta pick one or the other, bub.

    How this got modded up to 4 is beyond me. It's obvious the poster has ZERO understanding of IP routing...

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