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IP Shortage In Asia Just Myth, Says APNIC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the billions-and-billions dept.

rekkanoryo writes "News.com is carrying a story in which the Director General of APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) says that the "shortage" of IP addresses in Asia is a total myth. There's also some talk of IPv6 in this article."

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  1. In other news.... by carpe_noctem · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, the Iraqi Information Minister has once again emphasized that there are NO American tanks or forces in the city of Baghdad.

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    "Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
  2. There is no shortage of IP's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    However, there is an overabundance of users.

  3. Y2K by RazzleFrog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sometimes I think it is ok to exagerrate the urgency of a problem. People were predicting that Y2K would be the end of the world which was probably a little extreme (picture Simpsons episode with plains falling straight out of the sky). Did it help get stuff done, though? Definitely. So now you tell the executives that the world will end if we don't go to IPv6 and see what happens. Who cares if the truth is 2 or 10 years away.

  4. IP shortage in Asia by woverly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was so saddened by this story that I have started taking up a collection in the office. So far I've collected more than 500 IP addresses to send not counting an entire block of 10.100.x.x

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    Woverly Harris Gooch, IV CTO American Fire and Bomb, LLC
  5. Interesting name... by Polarcow · · Score: 5, Funny

    APNIC is just a letter switch away from PANIC. Not exactly an organization I'd put a lot of faith in... :)

  6. Asia myth as well by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    Asia is a hopeless lie made up by the governemnt to justify military spending. Have you notived that the majority of wars in the past 50 years have been fought in this mythological continent?

    It's quite obvious that it doesn't exist! Has anyone ever been there? Of course not! Do people come from there? No. We're meant to assume that all these Asians come from Asia. Hence the name. Well, these people are Asian-Americans! They come from America! Ask one next time you meet him. Ask where he is from. He'll say America (Unless you live in Europe or something that is).

    As soon as we accept that Asia doesn't exist, we'll be able to free up all the IP addresses that have been assigned for use by the part of the world that does exist.

  7. ipv6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You could argue there's a shortage of IPv4 addresses everywhere as long as it involves more than the most trivial amount of effort or any cost to get hold of them.

    IPv6 is very easy to set up and run on top of ipv4. More and more people are doing it and the most effort you have to do it enable the option in your kernel.

    Running ipv6 on top of your existing ipv4 address is as simple as these 5 shell commands

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/configu ring-ipv6to4-tunnels.html