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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!"

2 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. All cool sites are already running IPv6. by Mikaelk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Like youtube, google, facebook and slashdot.
    ok, all except slashdot.

  2. Re:The internet is full. Go away. by joostje · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem with this is, IPv4 addresses are not rare. They're not anything like rare. There are approximately ten thousand times as many of them as are actually needed.

    Well, with only 32 bits of address space, that's only 4,294,967,296 possible addresses, and there are already more people on the planet. We do need more.