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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
    1. 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.

  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. 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.

  4. Re:Recyle Recyle Recyle.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or, you know, just use ipv6.

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

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