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America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses
FireFury03 writes: The BBC is reporting that the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) ran out of spare IP addresses yesterday. "Companies in North America should now accelerate their move to the latest version of the net's addressing system. Now Africa is the only region with any significant blocks of the older version 4 internet addresses available." A British networking company that supplies schools has done an analysis on how concerned IT managers should be. This comes almost exactly 3 years after Europe ran out.
No, that's just an artifact of the different policies for assigning the last addresses. RIPE (the European registry) throttled assignments by making the requirements much more strict. That change of policy was considered the point when RIPE ran out of IPv4 addresses, because the remaining addresses are not given out just for asking. Unlike the other registries, ARIN did not institute a policy to extend the availability of IPv4 addresses for transitioning purposes, so they burned through the last 16 million addresses like no tomorrow and are now truly out of IPv4 addresses to assign. They are in fact the first registry without IPv4 addresses in stock. RIPE still has almost a full /8, APNIC has two thirds of an /8, LACNIC has one seventh of an /8, and AFRINIC still has 2.3 /8 blocks.
Out of IP addresses? Sounds like a good time to invade somewhere where they mine them!
If you want to invade somewhere with a crap ton of IPv4 address how about the DOD? They have an entire class A. They have more address than a number of continents.
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Or how about big businesses?
IBM 9.0.0.0/8
General electric 3.0.0.08
HP 15.0.0.0/8 AND 16.0.0.0/8
Apple 17.0.0.0/8
Ford 19.0.0.0/8
Haliburton 34.0.0.0/8
Hell the the US postal system owns 56.0.0.08
There are far more than enough IPv4 address to last us several more years they are just sitting in the hands of people that don't use them appropriately.
I am not saying that we should stick with IPv4, we need IPv6 in the long run it just should not be as urgent as it is becoming.
What IANA should do is revoke their ownership of those addresses and give them 6 months or so to restructure their internal networks before assigning there addresses to the rest of the planet.
---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.
Like who? MIT Is the only school i see that still has a class A
The most obvious people who should be giving them up are
a) HP - who have TWO class As and I believe around 7 employees.
b) Apple - have a class A and as far as I know don't run any significant external networking.
c) IBM - kinda like apple. they did have a networking business at one point but I believe that's sold to AT&T now
d) Halibutron - just why?
e) Prudential Insurance - wtf? in what possible world do they need 16 million external addresses?