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ARIN IPv4 Addresses Run Out Tomorrow

Posted by timothy on from the good-seats-still-available dept.

jcomeau_ictx provided that teaser of a headline, but writes: Not really. But the countdown at tunnelbroker.net should go to zero sometime tomorrow around noon, considering it's at 45,107 as I write this, it's counting down about one address every two seconds, and there are 86,400 seconds per day. Just happened to notice it today. Might be worth a little celebration at every NOC and IT enterprise tomorrow.

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  1. Re:Africa has all the addresses by Geordish · · Score: 3, Interesting

    AfraNIC do not have a shitload of addresses. They have around 2.5 /8's.

    Back before the exhaustion policies kicked in, ARIN were burning through a /8 every couple of months.

    This is why taking back the legacy address allocations will not really be worth the time or effort. There is more demand than availability. If there was free reign allocation over it all, it would be gone before the year is out.

    Move to IPv6 already.