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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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because most African networks are being created and not migrated.
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Obviously they're doing this so that Nigerian scammers can never be traced from one IP address.
Considering that African nations have each a small fraction of the 16 million addresses that the GE corporation has, they need something better than NAT.
Well, after Congress rejected the bailout, the shares of Campbell Soup went up.
And I'm NOT making this up!
The great thing about this moment in history is that latecomers can get the cost savings and other positive externalities that took years/decades to develop elsewhere. I, for one, welcome our new... oh well, forget about that one.
... 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
You need to enable IPv6 when IPv4 runs out around 2011 so that you can communicate with IPv6-only users. There's no benefit to turning it on early (unless you want to do debugging for vendors). Articles about how some country or another is "ahead" or "behind" in IPv6 are misguided because they're measuring the wrong thing. What is important is not who is running IPv6 today, but who is buying IPv6-capable equipment today so that they can turn it on "for free" in 2011.
Also, the summary propagates the old China IPv4 myth; in reality China will run out of IPv4 at the same time as the rest of the world.
If you were building a network when you had nothing before, why not start with IPv6.
Wow, all that info, and not one suggestion for how someone trying to describe a continent's IP trends (which i agree, was pretty much a direct racists attack) should address that continent.
Notice, i dont know what to call it now either.
help a dude out man.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
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 etymology of the name Africa is interesting but it does not give a "bad" connotation to Africa. I never heard of anybody calling someone an African instead of some real racist term.
Even more so... Isn't there white African people ? I'm not sure someone from South Africa (White or Black) would take offense at being called an African.
And ... How would you propose that we call that entire continent ?
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Jeez, the first new waves of botnets are from the third world. Script kiddies and mass mailers will be so proud!
Not really. You can't exactly scan an IPv6 range with the same efficiency as you can a IPv4 range. The chances of finding a live machine on the other end is really really really .... really small.
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Being modded funny doesn't mean they didn't believe you - true things can be funny too, although perhaps this is only funny in a "well, you've gotta laugh or you'd cry" kind of way.
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Its pretty easy to adopt a new standard when there was nothing in place yet to begin with, ...tops?
come on...what do they have over there 4 or 5 servers
Seriously, when I was offered a contract to develop a government project in Africa,
I was told there was so much corruption in government, that even if we developed our
software, it probably would not be used, as there was too many people wanting to
keep the present day systems, as this was the way they made the extra revenues, and
able to make their mortgages. It was a smoke screen to show there was development
but not that it would actually be used.
The continent formally known as Africa?
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He's probably using IPv6. His post got delayed by the transition mechanism.
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For the info, the wikipedia article proposes 5 different etymologies, none related to this one.
Actually, I cannot even find references to a Greek king named Afros. The closer mythical Greek I found is Aphrodite, but that has a rather different connotation!
Really, you should not believe everything you read on the internet.
what's shocking is that it was 4 minutes before first post!
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And ... How would you propose that we call that entire continent ?
India?
Hey, it worked before...
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Your comment made me think of that old Dead Kennedys song "Soup is Good Food". As relevant now as it was in The Day.
Trolling is a art,
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I doubt 409ers could come from anywhere but africa. 409 is a reference to the Nigeria criminal code.
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.
Your ignorance apalls me. Please do not ever leave the confines of slashdot. love -The Internet.
> His post got delayed by the transition mechanism.
or rather by the Beowulf of those.
I always thought that Japan has been the leader in IPv6 deployment for quite a while now considering that the Japanese government is backing IPv6.
changes from the "All of the x computers they have" jokes.
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I doubt 409ers could come from anywhere but africa. 409 is a reference to the Nigeria criminal code.
And that would be 419. 409 is a cleaner or a Beach Boys song.;)
The term '419' has become generalized since the orignal scams were so heavily located in Nigeria, but people use the term fairly generally.
Can you say Shadenfreude. Not all of us live in the USA.
This does not just apply to networks, it applies to just about everything. When Germany installed new phone systems after the war, guess what: they were the most up to date and automated systems in the world.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Nigeria.
120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.
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Really, you should not believe everything you read on the internet.
I don't believe you! /waits for his head to explode from the paradox /remembers he's not a robot
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"which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean." There are networks in the Indian Ocean? Thats the real news here.....
The answer is, we don't. For an example of an IP address with numbers going over 255, watch this movie
They might also email you to say, "Happy Independence Day'.
This being slashdot, I didn't actually look at the timestamps
However, now that you have questioned the validity of this fact, I did go back and look.
From the header:
Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 01, @12:22PM
From the first post:
by ilovesymbian (1341639) on Wednesday October 01, @12:26PM (#25223327)
From the calculations in my head, the delta between 12:26PM and 12:22PM is 4 minutes (+-1 minute).
But perhaps Slashdot is presenting you with a different first post...
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The numbers to add, so to NOT confuse the people who now shout that Africa is going so great:
See SixXS Ghost Route Hunter for the live data:
* 6bone (144) (phased out on 6/6/2006)
* RIPE (1119)
* APNIC (490)
* ARIN (706)
* LACNIC (115)
* AfriNIC (60)
There are thus ONLY 60 IPv6 allocations in the African region, if you then follow the link, you will find the following nice thing: "Thus 19 (33.33%) networks are currently correctly announced."
As there barely is no Internet in Africa, (especially when looking at ASNs, and remember that a lot of US ASN's are used in Africa) yes you might reach 22%.
Wow, yes that is a lot compared to the rest of the world:
AFRINIC - 19 (33.33%)
LACNIC - 37 (32.17%)
APNIC - 223 (45.70%)
ARIN - 239 (34.00%)
RIPE - 548 (49.02%)
Europe wins again! :)
Statistics again show how easily things can be misunderstood and interpreted in various ways.
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I wonder about that. It depends on what method the site uses for the local part of the IP address. I imagine a number of ranges will start with :1 and just number in order.
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