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.

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A day which will live in famey.

[TheRealHocusLocus]

So far the day is going smoothly. I am comparing before and after photos but have detected no anomalies thus far.

Having no ipv4 allocations available is like that very first day when the folks pumping gas at the filling station filled your tank but did not clean your windshield or check the oil. There was great deal of anxiety at first, but (thankfully) people kept arriving for gas and the country slowly adjusted to this 'new normal'.

Then gas station attendants disappeared altogether.
No one knows where they've gone.
So if you work in IT, tie a string to yourself so we can follow it if you go poof.