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IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated
mysidia writes "A total of 16,777,216 IP address numbers were just allocated to the Asian Pacific Network Information Centre IP address registry for assignment to users. Some venerable IP addresses such as 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.3.4 have been officially assigned to the registry itself temporarily, for testing as part of the DEBOGON project. The major address blocks 1.0.0.0/8 and 27.0.0.0/8, are chosen accordance with a decision by ICANN to assign the least-desirable remaining IP address ranges to the largest regional registries first, reserving most more desirable blocks of addresses for the African and Latin American internet users, instead of North America, Europe, or Asia. In other words: of the 256 major networks in IPv4, only 24 network blocks remain unallocated in the global free pool, and many of the remaining networks have been tainted or made less desirable by unofficial users who attempted an end-run around the registration process, and treated 'RESERVED' IP addresses as 'freely available' for their own internal use. This allocation is right on target with projected IPv4 consumption and was predicted by the IPv4 report, which has continuously and reliably estimated global pool IP address exhaustion for late 2011 and regional registry exhaustion by late 2012. So, does your enterprise intranet use any unofficial address ranges for private networks?" Reader dude_nl sends in a summary of the issues with allocating from 1.0.0.0/8 from the BGPmon.net blog. "As Alain Durand mentioned on Nanog: 'Who said the water at the bottom of the barrel of IPv4 addresses will be very pure? We ARE running out and the global pain is increasing.'"
They'll never take my 127.0.0.1 away from me, dammit!
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Thats the IP address of my luggage.
I will be happy to wear the consequences of owning 13.0.0.0 and following recent events I suggest China be allocated 4.0.0.0
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It looks like that the Map of the internet needs to be redrawn soon.
or 29.09.19.69 (my bday)
So if you had your Social Security number as an IP address, what would it be?
who claim that IP exhaustion is a conspiracy thought up by Al Gore to generate more money for the British Royal Family, and that if we ignore the liberal computer scientists and their biased journals, everything will be fine.
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
Not a problem, we can just NAT the NATed NAT NAT and everything will be fine forever, tra-la!
IANA
I hope you did that on purpose.
Not a problem, we can just NAT the NATed NAT NAT and everything will be fine forever, tra-la!
Yo dawg, I heard you like IPv4, so we put some NAT in yo NAT so you can surf while you surf.
I thought you just misread the original post.
Don't I at least get a "whoosh"? :-)
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
IANA network expert
Mod parent funny for the double-entendre.
How is that 'offtopic'?
It wasn't. It's like an AC said in a different discussion; the mod disagreed with him but did not have the intellectual capacity to construct a counter-argument.
If the more trigger-happy mods have an axe to grind and want to waste points, mod me down. Right now. I dare you. I have more karma than I need and would rather you mod me down than use your points where it would actually matter. Maybe I should have omitted that last sentence since it might make you reconsider doing it.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
When I got in to tech 10 years ago, IPV6 was 6 months away from implementation, AFAIK it still is ;)
Am I the only one that can see the connection? :)
"which has continuously and reliably estimated global pool IP address exhaustion for late 2011 and regional registry exhaustion by late 2012"
The Maya Calender ends 2012 a coincidence I think not!
They have foreseen the end of IPv4 address space.
It's the beginning of the end.
You'll know IPV4 really ran out of space once they sell of 127.0.0.1 though...
If our elected representatives no longer represent us, do we still live in a Democracy?
My xkcd "Map of the Internet" poster just got outdated.