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RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses

Posted by Soulskill on from the problems-that-need-to-be-addressed dept.

New submitter 8-Track writes "The RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, distributed the last blocks of IPv4 address space from the available pool. This means they are now distributing IPv4 address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) from the last /8. An ISP may receive one /22 allocation (1,024 IPv4 addresses), even if they can justify a larger allocation. This /22 allocation will only be made to LIRs if they have already received an IPv6 allocation from an upstream LIR or the RIPE NCC. Time to move to IPv6!"

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  1. The internet is full. Go away. by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't we already have enough people on the internet? Why do we keep encouraging more? :-)

    Note: to all you humor-impaired people, the smiley face indicates this is a JOKE.

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    John
  2. time to do... something by alphatel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will soon run out of underwear (I have been told this since 2009). I still have not done anything about it despite holes in them. Count on my continued responsiveness to this problem.

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    When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
  3. IPv6? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is no such thing as IPv6. Once we run out of IPv4 addresses, the internet will implode and everything will be lost.

    The rapture is here!

    1. Re:IPv6? by Blue+Stone · · Score: 4, Funny

      >The rapture is here!

      It's the IPocalypse!

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      Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
  4. Personally? by kiriath · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to wait it out and skip straight from IPv4 to IPv8... IPv6 could be the Windows Vista of the IP world.

    1. Re:Personally? by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why not just use IPv9

      RFC 1606: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1606.txt

  5. Re:spammers by Nofsck+Ingcloo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess the reason I'm dragging my heels is my complete mystification and annoyance that the designers of IPV6 didn't do something sensible like make some small corner of the V6 address space map to the V4 address space. So instead of being simple and seamless, I have to spend some time fooling around with my equipemnt and software to work around that omission. A pox on the designer's heads.