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ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses

Posted by Unknown on from the end-times dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On 3 February 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) issued the remaining five /8 address blocks, each containing 16.7 million addresses, in the global free pool equally to the five RIRs, and as such ARIN is no longer able to receive additional IPv4 resources from the IANA. After yesterday's large allocation (104.64.0.0/10) to Akamai, the address pool remaining to be assigned by ARIN is now down to the last /8. This triggers stricter allocation rules and marks the end of general availability of new IPv4 addresses in North America. ARIN thus follows the RIRs of Asia, Europe and South America into the final phase of IPv4 depletion."

8 of 306 comments (clear)

  1. About time! by drew_92123 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They've been talking about this day for what seems like an eternity... Finally, we can start complaining about something else!

    1. Re:About time! by stderr_dk · · Score: 3, Funny

      Without looking, what is your static IPv6 address? ;)

      ::1/128

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    2. Re:About time! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      That would have about as much effect as pissing into the ocean would have on raising sea levels.

      But then Portland would throw out the Pacific Ocean.

  2. Sigh by koan · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's no place like ::1

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  3. Re:Phase Four!?!? Oh noes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got a whole block of IPv6 addresses available, cheap... act now, before the rush!

  4. Re:We are not anywhere near running out of address by pr0nbot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly we should have invested years ago in finding renewable sources of IP addresses...

  5. Re:Wasn't allocation always the problem? by medv4380 · · Score: 3, Funny

    IPv6 is the re-engineer the network solution.

  6. Re:We are not anywhere near running out of address by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here at DHCP, we're committed to providing only renewable and conflict-free IPs.

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