No More Space on The Internet

[nforce4max]

Interesting little revision of history in this article. Does ARPANET ring any bells no because that was an American venture.

 

[firvagor]

It's time to kick ass and allocate IPv4 addresses...and I'm all out of IPv4 addresses.

 

[mavroxur]

This stupid story comes up about every 4-6 months. "Oh noes, the internet is out of space!" Come on people. Routing.....port forwarding..... it's not rocket science. Not every device on the planet needs a unique external IP address. We have government entities and businesses that are sitting on entire class A blocks that they could possibly never use (how many orginazaions need 16777216 IP addresses?)

 

[Marco925]

I wonder how much i can sell my IP address for..... i have three of them.

 

[killakat]

"...sextillion"

Giddity.

 

[phantomtrooper]

*plays taps*

 

[hoofhearted]

They just need to reboot the master router. Yall need to keep up with your Southpark.

 

[COLGeek]

For the non-believers, do the math. It isn't hard to see that the problem is real from atechnical standpoint.

Time to make sure all your stuff supports IPv6. In the meantime, the IT world will limp along with IPv4 work-arounds until the transition to IPv6 occurs.

For the average user, who doesn't understand IPv4, this will be a non-event in terms of changing.

 

[the associate]

wow, fail double post, i guess i wasnt failing to log in after all....

 

[dgingeri]

[citation][nom]Britillion[/nom]When they say sextillion, do they mean paltry American 10^21 or are they talking about the Real Men British sextillions at 10^36?[/citation]

Actually, it's 2^128 or roughly 10^38

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6

 

[roxim5]

[citation][nom]Britillion[/nom]When they say sextillion, do they mean paltry American 10^21 or are they talking about the Real Men British sextillions at 10^36?[/citation]

Oh you mean Archaic British Long scale system that is no longer practiced in Britain?

But yes, it is being said in short scale, though their numbers are incorrect. It is actually 2^128, which is 340 undecillion or 3.4×10^38

 

[Guest]

So what does this actually mean? No more new IP addresses?

 

[fayzaan]

The internets is gunna die!! someone do something!

 

[captaincharisma]

we got to free up some space. quick delete all the justin beiver and miley cirus fan pages.

 

[magruder13]

Can't we just take Egypt back off the map and free up some IP's?

 

[the_krasno]

[citation][nom]tomate2[/nom]internet made of buckets?[/citation]

No, the Internet is a series of tubes...

 

[hardcore_gamer]

[citation][nom]peterdigby[/nom]Does this mean no new porn on the internet???DAMN!!!![/citation]
Don't worry.There will be 128bit IPV6 porn

 

[Snipergod87]

When I give my IP address out so people can connect to my server I will now have to give out that really long IPv6 address?

 

[buzznut]

[citation][nom]damnskippy[/nom]The "internet" has been around in other forms much longer than 1981. The World Wide Web was created by CERN. Not the internet. There is a distiction that should be drawn. The WWW is an application, that runs ON the internet. The Internet came from the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPANET) back in the 1960s[/citation]

This

 

[buzznut]

[citation][nom]firvagor[/nom]It's time to kick ass and allocate IPv4 addresses...and I'm all out of IPv4 addresses.[/citation]
Pretty sure he's referring to Rush Limbaugh.