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."

Comments

CIDR to the rescue!

[scubamage]

Seriously though, some of the companies out there are still using class A and B networks and only using a few of those IP's. There's no reason for that in this day and age except for very extreme circumstances, like application service providers and web hosts. No company out there needs 16 million IP addresses, and I believe you'd be hard pressed to find one out there who even needs class B (65,000). Companies like IBM and apple need to give some of the spectrums they grabbed back when the getting was good back to the rest of the world. Switch from the allotment they got in the classy days and to the newer CIDR system. CIDR and NAT should postpone any real emergency for IP addresses if used properly.

We still need to switch eventually, but this could push it back a ways.