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Asia Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses

Posted by timothy on from the perhaps-you'd-like-to-try-the-duck dept.

ZerXes writes "It seems that APNIC has just released the last block of IPv4 addresses and are now completely out, a lot faster then expected. Even though APNIC received 3 /8 blocks in February the high growth of mobile devices made the addresses run out even before the summer. 'From this day onwards, IPv6 is mandatory for building new Internet networks and services,' says APNIC Director General Paul Wilson."

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  1. Re:Do Mobiles really need IPv4? by CAIMLAS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, giving mobile phones IPv6 addresses makes a lot of sense. A 'no brainer', maybe. All new 'embedded' type consumer devices should be IPv6 only, IMO. It completely avoids most of the problems associated with IPv6 on so-called legacy IPv4 networks:

    * there are no legacy applications
    * the likelihood of connecting, directly, with anything on IPv4 that does not support IPv6 is drastically lowered
    * there is little to no legacy hardware to support.

    Of course, this would require the handsets and other 'embedded' devices to actually support IPv6. I don't know if that's the case, yet.

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  2. Re:So which is which? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A /22 is pretty much nothing, so what you're saying is that an ISP looking for addresses can get pretty much nothing from APNIC. Thus, they're basically out.