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Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the put-on-your-debating-hat dept.

Zocalo writes "While looking up some WHOIS information at RIPE just now I noticed a couple of articles about the IPv4 address space allocation status. IPv4 Address Space: October 2003 is a short summary by RIPE themselves, and IPv4 - How long have we got? is from July 2003, but has lots more detail and pretty graphs! In short, the "Death of the Internet" due to lack of IP space is a myth, which doesn't bode well for getting IPv6 rolled out any time soon."

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  1. If I read one more thing about NAT == security?!? by AndroSyn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll scream. Lets get the facts straight.

    What most people think of as NAT boxes, are actually combination NAT/Firewalls. The fact that you have non-unique private IP addresses on the hosts behind it does not make anything more secure. If the NAT box is compromised, its real easy to go after the machines behind it. This is no different than having public IP addresses on the devices behind your firewall. Firewall gets compromised, same deal. Now if you have firewall configured correctly, it will block packets to the hosts behind it. With a NAT device, this is really the only mode of operation it has, short of port forwarding certain things to internal addresses.

    Now, does this make sense to any of you people, or are you all slow?