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Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle
An anonymous reader writes "The most comprehensive scan of the entire internet for several decades shows that millions of allocated addresses simply aren't being used. Professor John Heidemann from the University of Southern California (USC) used ICMP and TCP to scan the internet. Even though the last IPv4 addresses will be handed out in a couple of years, his survey reveals that many of the addresses allocated to big companies and institutions are lying idle. Heidemann says: 'People are very concerned that the IPv4 address space is very close to being exhausted. Our data suggests that maybe there are better things we should be doing in managing the IPv4 address space.' So, is it time to reclaim those unused addresses before the IPv6 crunch?"
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The most comprehensive scan of the entire internet for several decades
As opposed to the great Internet scans of the 30s?
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Screw the car-analogy people. Explain how this situation affects me in terms of meats!
Only if you stick it in the Outgoing jack.
The FCC should just mandate a switch to IPv6, if the US leads, the rest of the world tends to follow.
Exactly.
Listen up world! We've decided that you all should be using miles, feet, inches, Fahrenheit, and gallons. Please upgrade your silly metric system.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.