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China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days
JagsLive writes "China is running out of IP addresses unless it makes the switch to IPv6. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, under the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no proper measures are taken by then, new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet. Li Kai, director in charge of the IP business for CNNIC's international department, says that if a netizen wants to get access to the Internet, an IP address will be necessary to analyze the domain name and view the pages. At present, most of the networks in China use IPv4 addresses. As a basic resource for the Internet, the IPv4 addresses are limited and 80% of the final allocation IP addresses have been used."
Sounds like it will be easier than ever to ring the Wong number!
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Really? I thought there was a separate internet in China...
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Try the whole world. According to this counter, the world will be out of IPv4 addresses in 768 days.
So the world runs out of addresses before China runs out?
Did the Chinese government move themselves to outer space?
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A: Because it breaks the flow of a message.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
...and enable NAT.
Problem solved. :)
To error is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the OS.
They're even running out of RFC 1918 addresses.
the LHC will end it quicker than that. They estimate some 90 days until they've got their repairs done ;)
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Impose a one IP address per family rule...
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Worse, they are using "netizen" to describe people who aren't on the internet. Kind of like calling someone a pilot if they would someday like to fly a plane.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
Shame Lehman didn't have a /8 block.
That would sure make my spam filter rule set a lot shorter. :D
One World, Two Internets.
It's got a nice ring to it. LOL
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Am I the only one that noticed Hey, they can only have one baby, but we'll give them 3 IP addresses? Sounds like the Chinese government is getting liberal or something
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Carly Fiorina's ego. It's so big that it was necessary to support all of her ego's operations. If it grows any more, the IPv6 address space will be screwed as well.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
NAT is not a solution. It's a huge, gigantic clusterfuck of a problem.
Can't it be both? Like so many things.
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damn it! I want a unique static address for each blade of grass on my lawn !
Then I can shout at people to GET OF IT !
On a separate note, didn't anyone ever teach you that just because your calculator displays all those digits, it doesn't mean they're significant?
Don't you mean "netizens"?
Yes, be a good netizen and stop saying netizen.
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Kind of like calling someone a pilot if they would someday like to fly a plane.
Come now, this is Slashdot. It's actually more like calling someone a car mechanic, when they would some day like to work on cars.
-G
Their may be a grammatical error, misspeling, or evn a typo in this post.
Did the Chinese government move themselves to outer space?
Nop. They've enabled NAT on their national firewall.
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
We've only used half the available numbers.
Just start using negative numbers: -248.100.-97.-201
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8.3 * 10^2 days
Quite so. It's simply good netiquette.
In terms of Libraries of Congress?
I'm currently working at CBS and they're using 170.x.x.x addresses on machines internally. These are machines that will never be connected directly to the internet. Now the really stupid thing is that they also use 10.x.x.x addresses inside, basically side by side to the 170.x.x.x machines. The 170.x.x.x addresses are hoarded for some reason and when you do need a machine that will have ports available on the internet they require that machine to have a 170.x.x.x address because they can't seem to figure out how to NAT a port to a port or one IP to another.
Peak IP4 is a myth; there are still plenty of addresses buried in the Canadian tar sands. However, in the short term, the only solution is to lift the ban on coastal drilling for IP4 addresses.
Thank goodness, maybe they will take away the Chinese spam houses IPs and use them for something less irritating.
Although IPv6 will be glorious when it arrives for the masses to use, it is still just as temporary well. It will eventually run out. Faster actually, since, as I have come to understand it, correct me if i am wrong, each individual computer will have its own global IP. Meaning that a company with 1 outer connection, and 5000 networked computers has the potential to take up 5000 global IP's instead of one. Just my thoughts.
--gmxgeek
Has anybody noticed that the summary is basically repeated twice?
I wonder if anybody noticed the summary was repeated twice.
Maybe if the sprinkle their routers with Melamine it will fix it for them.
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So you can connect to your fridge and see if your milk has gone off from outside your home?
No problem. Just forward port 6969 (the standard port for FAP or Fridge Access Protocol) to the 192.168.1.x internal IP assigned to your fridge. Then you can FAP anywhere you have Internet access.
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i heard they got a whole mess o' internet in california. enough for everyone!
Doesn't matter - the IPv4 shortage is a myth.
DeBeers actually has plenty, but they're being hoarded away in vaults in Antwerp to keep the price artificially high.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
So the world runs out of addresses before China runs out?
Did the Chinese government move themselves to outer space?
In communist china, IPv4 addresses run out of YOU.
Dear Fridge,
You're out of SPAM!
- the grocery store
Gah. Everyone hates a grammar Nazi who won't let a mistake slip in his comment for us to point at and laugh. That means you!
You just got troll'd!
NAT just makes sense, I have no problems with it. You know, it has that "this is how it should be" feel to it.
You're into bondage porn, aren't you.
That wasn't a question.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
but i have 2 fridge's that i want to access from the internet using FAP. how can i do that without using a nonstandard port for one of them.
"Just how lazy are you?
As much as technology will allow.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Can't they just all use the same IP address just like they all shared the same license key of Windows XP?
Usually people as enthusiastic about needing to FAP as you seem to be don't mind the option of "nonstandard ports". But, to each his own.
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All standardized by the ISO and bought and paid for by (hmmm, lets see now, which manufacturer's name to use...) Kenmore. If you use another manufacturer, either you're out of luck or you have to use the Vendor-Appliance-Adapter-Access Protocol (so FAP-MAP-VAAAP).
There will be 2 more years until we run out of IPs and about 4 more years if we use big corporations IPs.
2008 + 4 = 2012 = end of the world
I guess the mayans were right after all...