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Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption
Ian Lamont writes "The recent news that China will run out of IPv4 addresses in a few years points to slow adoption of IPv6 in some developed countries. Now it turns out that the largest number of networks displaying new IPv6 address blocks are registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean. While AfriNIC has a smaller installed base than other regions, many countries in Africa are showing rapid growth in terms of online connectivity."
Dear sirs, I am a prince of a country that's caught in war between using ipv4 and ipv6. If you deposit $100,000 I will promise you returns of 10,000 million IPv6 IP addresses. Please send me your account number, SSN, credit card details and other important detail that will help me facilitate the transaction.
Yours lovingly,
His Royal Highness Prince of some Nigerian tribe
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Well, after Congress rejected the bailout, the shares of Campbell Soup went up.
And I'm NOT making this up!
... this massive craze for adoptions in Africa. But never imagined it would extend from H sapiens to IPv6. Go Jolie
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
C'mon moderators, THIS SHIT IS NOT FUNNY!
From The Economist:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down by 7%, and suffered its biggest-ever points loss. Perhaps fittingly in an economy that is in danger of sliding into depression, the only stock among the 500 in the S&P index that finished higher was Campbell's Soup.
The continent formally known as Africa?
Drill baby drill - on Mars
He's probably using IPv6. His post got delayed by the transition mechanism.
This comment is for entertainment purposes only. Any similarity to real insight or information is purely coincidental.
because most African networks are being created and not migrated.
Of course. African networks are non-migratory.
I really don't know what is this fuss about lack of IP numbers.
If we already write them as xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt, why we stop at 255? We could simply go up to 999! Even better, we could use the letters too. Imagine all the possibilities if we take separately lower case and upper case!
And finally, when we exhaust these too, we could move to unicode.
No sig today.
You're right, but you still lose. You'll get the hang of it soon; stick with it.
Otherwise we'd have to worry about the network speed of an unladen African network.
The answer is, we don't. For an example of an IP address with numbers going over 255, watch this movie
Ah, Africa, where the IPs are as plentiful as Zimbabwean dollars.
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