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IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready
An anonymous reader writes "We've known for ages that IPv4 was going to run out of addresses — now, it's happening. IPv6 was going to save us — it isn't. The upcoming crisis will hit, perhaps as soon as 2010, but nobody can agree on what to do. The three options are all pretty scary. This article covers the background, and links to a presentation by Randy Bush (PDF) that shows the reality of the problem in stark detail."
If IPv4 runs out and we can't use IPv6, then I guess we split the difference and use IPv5
Is this really a problem for most people? NAT really.
Not dupe! That story is titled "One Step Closer to IPv6"... This one is "798 steps to go"
i'm sharing my blog ip address with a porn site dedicated to a fetish for women with moustaches, some guy's home security system in hong kong, a government bureaucrat's cell phone in helsinki, and an email server for a truck dispatching company waco texas
i think it's also a pretty good premise for a reality show or situation comedy
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
On the other hand, some people will wait until the last minute and then spend time and energy towards solutions that might have spent towards other things had a more gradual migration takes place.
In fact, the looming IPv4 address crunch reminds me a little bit of the Y2K issue. Maybe some journalists will start presenting it to the public as a countdown to doomsday? We could have manuals like Hyatt's old The Y2K Personal Survival Guide telling us how to stock up on food and generator fuel for when civilization ends due to the sudden lack of new IP addresses. There would be religious figures and conspiracy theorists claiming that the Antichrist/UN/black helicopters/NWO will take advance of the chaos surrounding the IPv4 address crunch to institute their reign of fear. It'll be like 1999 all over again.
And put China behind it. IPv4 addresses, plenty. Botnet problem, solved.
America will then become the Saudi Arabia of ip addresses. Price of oil will drop to something 200,000,000 barrels for one address. Woot!
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
"... shows the reality of the problem in stark detail."
s/stark detail/comic sans/;
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Or just ban porn sites from using IPv4. Everyone's happy then: Think of the Children types will have porn apparently banned, techies will see IPv6 adopted widely, and civil liberties types will have porn available if they want it.
Look out!
Absolutely, reminds me of an old joke:
- Visitor: If there's quicksand in this part near the town why don't you put up a sign?!
- Man: We did, but nobody was falling in so we thought it was useless.
Ha ha.It's time for a new breed of man. One who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, but can also wash them when it's time to meet the management. Someone who can make time to shower and shave every morning. Someone who's novelty geek mug will be understood by even those who think that having spyware makes them a secret agent. Ladies and - oh wait, scratch that. *ahem* Gentlemen! Today I introduce a new template class - the Geexecutive! Get implementing!
which is totally what she said
Actually, that makes it sound lots more appealing. :)
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Why don't we send intel a bill of $1 per each of their 72,000,000 IP4s, and DEC, and IBM, ... each year, and let them lead the way to IPV6.
Yeah it's the pr0n sites' fault. Now, google search for the article by Randy Bush.....