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What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone

Posted by timothy on from the stars-wink-out-one-by-one dept.

darthcamaro writes 'We all know that IPv4 address space is almost all gone — but how will we know when the exact date is? And what will happen that day? In a new report, ARIN's CIO explains exactly what will happen on that last day of IPv4 address availability: '"We will run out of IPv4 address space and the real difficult part is that there is no flag date. It's a real moving date based on demand and the amount of address space we can reclaim from organizations," Jimmerson told InternetNews.com. "If things continue they way they have, ARIN will for the very first time, sometime between the middle and end of next year, receive a request for IPv4 address space that is justified and meets the policy. However, ARIN won't have the address space. So we'll have to say no for the very first time."'

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  1. The Internet is Full by Nerdfest · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Internet is full ... come back later.

    1. Re:The Internet is Full by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just put the internet behind a NAT. Simple.

    2. Re:The Internet is Full by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      OK, but i want it cleaned first, your IP address has been to every porn site on the internet.

    3. Re:The Internet is Full by MBCook · · Score: 5, Funny

      Have you tried draining your ethernet cable?

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    4. Re:The Internet is Full by gbjbaanb · · Score: 5, Funny

      Do you have an answer on how being cut off from large swaths of the internet is a good thing

      depends, is Facebook on this part of the Internet you're referring to?

    5. Re:The Internet is Full by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow, way to go big guy! Instead of 2011 for IANA exhaustion, it'll now be 2013! Problem solved.

      He's planning for the world to end in 2012.

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  2. dev/null by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Send users to dev/null.

    1. Re:dev/null by biryokumaru · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you send them to /dev/random, it should eventually give them everything on the internet. Eventually.

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  3. Easy by networkzombie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just do what I do at work. Ping the address, if there is no reply, assign it to something else.

  4. Perhaps the end of /. stories on end of IPv4 by haus · · Score: 4, Funny

    But somehow I doubt it.

  5. Time to start hoarding... by JorDan+Clock · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess it's time to start filling bathtubs with IPv4 addresses!

  6. everybody somebody nobody anybody by h00manist · · Score: 5, Funny

    An important job had to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done

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  7. Re:Hmmm by jsepeta · · Score: 3, Funny

    I agree.

    Also I suggest opening up .XXX and make all the porn guys move their sites to the .XXX namespace. Plus make them migrate to IPV6 so the rest of us can just stick with IPV4

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  8. Investment about to pay off! by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 3, Funny

    I paid thousands for 127.0.0.1 years ago in anticipation of this. Cha-ching!