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At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses

Posted by timothy on from the so-last-decade dept.

An anonymous reader excerpts from an interesting article at Ars Technica, which begins "There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address[es]. (Even if he doesn't get re-elected.)"

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  1. No, that's propaganda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We'll never run out of IPv4 addresses. "Peak-IPv4" is a myth created by those who hate America and want Asia's IPv6 to take over. 4 octets forever!

  2. ::1 by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've already got MY ipv6 address.

    1. Re:::1 by furball · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can't reach loopback?

  3. Let me be the first to say ... by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 5, Funny

    4 octets should be enough for everyone.

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  4. Bono should be pleased... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody not paying for a business line will being going through so many layers of NAT in the near future that getting bittorrent to work will be quite difficult...

  5. Re:Ah but...! by hedwards · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ha ha, I'm pwning it as we spe

  6. Re:Every two years? Hah. More like twice a year by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    No no, after December 21, 2012 all the addresses will be available!!

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  7. idea: switch to alphanumeric by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 4, Funny
    So, an address might look like:

    1h2.tyj.56j.0as

    I think that would solve the problem permanently.

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