America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses

Posted by samzenpus on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:41AM from the empty-bucket dept.

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.

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Re:Boy cries wolf by Alioth · 2015-09-25 02:18 · Score: 5, Interesting

The real WTF is that Slashdot has been running IPv6 articles for years...and *still* doesn't support IPv6.
Facebook on the other hand - not a tech site, but a site for angsty teenagers, baby pics, cat memes and partisan squabbling - has supported IPv6 fully for years.
It's embarrassing that a tech site can't do what a non-tech site has been doing for years.

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