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Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock

Posted by timothy on from the one-on-every-desktop dept.

alphadogg (971356) writes "Microsoft has been forced to start using its global stock of IPv4 addresses to keep its Azure cloud service afloat in the U.S., highlighting the growing importance of making the shift to IP version 6. The newer version of the Internet Protocol adds an almost inexhaustible number of addresses thanks to a 128-bit long address field, compared to the 32 bits used by version 4. The IPv4 address space has been fully assigned in the U.S., meaning there are no additional addresses available, Microsoft said in a blog post earlier this week. This requires the company to use the IPv4 address space available to it globally for new services, it said."

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  1. So after years of panic... by houstonbofh · · Score: 5, Funny

    So after years of panic, someone finally ran out of IPs. No, wait a minute... They still didn't.

    1. Re:So after years of panic... by spectrokid · · Score: 4, Funny

      but the routing tables once more become more complicated. Shit starts slowing down, there is more room for mistakes in BGP. With all the routers having to do more calculations a gazillion times a day, shit starts using more power. That is right: our refusal to move to IPV6 is increasing our emission of greenhouse gasses

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    2. Re:So after years of panic... by tehlinux · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think the headline was meant to point out that people are actually using azure...

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  2. It's never... by Virtucon · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's never to late to procrastinate.

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  3. Re:Not sure what they mean... by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you called MS support you would have learned that you should have used Internet Explorer, not Chrome!

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  4. That's going to screw up the map. by saccade.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leave it to Microsoft to screw up the map.