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IPv4 Unallocated Addresses Exhausted by 2010

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the no-room-to-grow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica is reporting on how the unallocated IPv4 address pool could run out as soon as 2010. The IPv4 Address Report gives details on just how fast the available pool of IPv4 addresses is diminishing. Will ISPs be moving towards IPv6 any time soon? Or will IPv4 exhaustion become the next Y2K?"

15 of 419 comments (clear)

  1. everything is going to be ok by WormholeFiend · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet that people will be bored of the internet by then

  2. Re:From TFA: free pr0n! by HoosierPeschke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well duh, why do you think people got on the Internet in the first place? Some military experiment? pffffffft. It's all about the pr0n!

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  3. Re:it's tghe next Y2k by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 5, Funny

    IPv4 will be exhausted at around the same time as the first commercial fusion power plant is started and the release of Duke Nukem Forever.

  4. Re:VoIp Everything by glomph · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nonsense. If mobile companies do go to VoIP, it will be done in private IP space. The IPv6 fanboys are ridiculous, even Dick Cheney is more believable....

  5. Whew! by zymurgy_cat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, am I glad I've got 192.168.0.100 through 192.168.0.105 setup on my network at home. Hmmm.....maybe I should lay claim to 106 through 110, just in case.....

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    1. Re:Whew! by D4rk+Fx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Man, am I glad I've got 192.168.0.100

      That's the same IP address I've got on my luggage!
    2. Re:Whew! by SageLikeFool · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now that I know your IP address range I am so gonna h4x y3r b0x3n.

  6. Re:it's tghe next Y2k by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > i've been hearing about how ip4 will run out in the next 5 years for the last TEN years.

    We've been in various stages of Imminent Death of the Net Predicted for at least 25 years. Y2K was merely the last version, and running out of IPv4 is merely the current version.

    Just wait until we abandon CSS in order to ensure that an entire page can be rendered by through a single TCP/IPv6 connection. Domain names with vowels! HTML with serifed fonts! Imminent Death of Web 2.0 predicted!

  7. Hey! by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those are MINE, you THIEF!

    1. Re:Hey! by zymurgy_cat · · Score: 4, Funny

      In that case, I'm blocking them with my firewall. Take that, jerk!

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  8. Let's just NAT by bl8n8r · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kidding - I'm KIDDING

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  9. Re:it's tghe next Y2k by Jonny0stars · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thinks its all a big con to waste china's money.
    Besides by the time they bother to implement it it will all fall apart with the year 2038 problem anyway.

  10. So in a back alley in the future by jhines · · Score: 3, Funny

    There will be some guy in an ill fitting suit accosting you, "hey man, got extra IP4?" "I gotta plug in man, I'm jones'ng for some connectivity." "IP6? can't. My colon can't take the colons, 3 dots is all I can handle"

  11. THE correct answer by EdelFactor19 · · Score: 3, Funny

    clearly the real answer here is 42. we should skip right over IPv6 and go to.... IPv42
    anything else?

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  12. In case they start embargoin' our IPs, see... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, yeah. That's the "Strategic IP Address Reserve."

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