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- praveenmarkandu, on 05/19/2008, -2/+288isnt this the reason we are moving to IPv6?
- Semirhage527, on 05/19/2008, -3/+135This article title is very misleading. The solution already exists, it's just a wake up call article for businesses.
"Perset said businesses must adopt an updated IP network with almost an unlimited number of domains to help expand services and applications even further. " Google has already done that, others will over the next 3 years. - NotThatGuy, on 05/19/2008, -3/+96we need more tubes
- TehProphet, on 05/19/2008, -0/+83That's what IPv6 is for.. and thanks to NAT I kinda doubt the IPv4 addresses will even run out as quickly as they are saying.. And I thought it was about web addresses(ie:www.wtf.com) until I read the article.. crappy title/description imho.
- bincoder, on 05/19/2008, -11/+82Thats only one internet. There are plenty of other internets, the president said so.
/sarc - mark076h, on 05/19/2008, -3/+59nothing to worry about with IPv6
- ecape7, on 05/19/2008, -3/+49at least its tech on the front page
- afx1, on 05/19/2008, -0/+43ipv6 is the proposed answer. even my box of cereal will be able to have its own ip with that.
- aflaks, on 05/19/2008, -3/+36Old. Not news. Burried.
- atbnet, on 05/19/2008, -1/+27We wouldn't need more IP addresses if the people who posted these stupid comments never used the internet in the first place. Get off my IP addresses!
/Old Internet man - Slaiv, on 05/19/2008, -4/+29You used up all my internets!
- CiDaemon, on 05/19/2008, -16/+39So...what you're saying is that WE NEED MOAR INTERNETS?
- bmystry, on 05/19/2008, -3/+24Oh ***** man they're going to have to ration it out and then we might only get thirty seconds on it.
- kevinisnthere, on 05/19/2008, -0/+21I'm pretty sure Hotmail experienced the same problem. Lucky for me, all I had to do was forward the email to 10 people and I got to keep my address!
- paulierocks, on 05/19/2008, -0/+16"255.255.255.255 this kind of ip address with 4 classes...
Yes I agree we will run out very soon! They need to introduce letters into the number system! but doubt it... maybe they will increase to 5 class IP address! ahhaah this will cause a big crash to the internet for sure if they convert it!
What will they do??"
You don't know what the ***** you're talking about. - inactive, on 05/19/2008, -4/+19There are 281 trillion IPv6 addresses... there's no way we're ever going to use up all those in 3 years.
- elambing, on 05/19/2008, -1/+16i dont know... i heard there was still some internet way down near californee
- macrymble, on 05/19/2008, -1/+16Screw IPv6. I'm holding out for IPv8. 2^128 addresses just aren't enough. Sure, there would be 2^52 addresses for every star in the known universe...but what if I wanted to address every atom of every star in the known universe? IPv6 just wouldn't cut it.
Wake me up when we get a 512-bit addressing scheme. - newstart, on 05/19/2008, -6/+20iPv6, ***** IT, WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
- fanclerks, on 05/19/2008, -0/+13It doesn't need subnetting or NAT to be done because of the way the protocol is designed. That's one of the nice things about IPv6. It'll end all of the NAT problems that pop up. Essentially every address is routable on the Internet when IPv6 is used.
- payrow, on 05/19/2008, -0/+12The sky is falling!!!
- epheterson, on 05/19/2008, -0/+12I'd hate to manually type in that IP address..
- afx1, on 05/19/2008, -1/+12i didn't even vote on your comment
- inactive, on 05/19/2008, -1/+12Letters to the number system? Here: FF.FF.FF.FF
- inactive, on 05/19/2008, -1/+11Don't worry, rules 34 and 35 won't let us down.
- salvadorwii, on 05/19/2008, -0/+10here, take 1 internet
- kelalo, on 05/19/2008, -1/+11I'm not sure what to digg down--lolcat meme speak, or not getting the joke. :P
- karlyguy, on 05/19/2008, -4/+14misleading. lame article. this was true 10 years ago - before nat, internet2, ipv6, etc
- bloodclot, on 05/19/2008, -9/+19IPv6 anyone?
- inactive, on 05/19/2008, -11/+20It's a ***** myth...
- str1fe, on 05/19/2008, -2/+11I heard they have some internet out west in Californey
- Scaryclouds, on 05/19/2008, -0/+9Screw tub es we need dump trucks!
- expert01, on 05/19/2008, -0/+8I'm sure I speak for many (if not most) of my fellow diggers when I ask... "How do I get an IPv6 address and browse IPv6 servers?"
And, I almost forgot, IPv4 addresses are predicted to run out in 19.5 to 31.5 months (at least the ones that IANA has to allocate). After that, you had better hope your ISP has enough IPv4 addresses to serve its customers or that it's switching to IPv6. Luckily DOCSIS 3.0 supports IPv6, so with a software update (And possibly a hardware upgrade if it's too old) your cable ISP can get you on IPv6 with no hassle. Haven't seen anything similar about DSL modems or Fiber Optic (i.e. FIOS). - jer2eydevil88, on 05/19/2008, -2/+10I use a pfsense router which leaves me all set for the transition to IPV6
- effinboy, on 05/19/2008, -0/+8Poor IPv5.... overlooked everytime. :(
- ynggrsshppr, on 05/19/2008, -3/+11Blame the people who gave away entire A class networks, that's what I do.
- inactive, on 05/19/2008, -2/+9who are these idiots getting paid to write about tech?
any ***** HIGH SCHOOL kid knows about IP6 - seanmanseanman, on 05/19/2008, -12/+19ORLY!?
- dark_helmet, on 05/19/2008, -0/+7Actually, when you subnet, you use up more addresses per host. Although it beats wasting largely unused larger subnets. For every subnet there needs to be a subnet address (all 0 for the host bits) and a broadcast address (all 1 for the host bits).
I'm fairly certain that you meant with private addresses (and NAT) that we won't run out. The truth is, that its not a matter of if, but when we run out of IPV4 addresses.
The main issue with moving to IPV6 is that older computers (and other hardware) do not support IPV6 without at least patching, so a large scale move would leave them in the dark when it came to talking to IPV6 only machines. - mark076h, on 05/19/2008, -1/+8sweet because i hate subnetting, its the only hard thing for the CCNA
- mattyohe, on 05/19/2008, -1/+8Wow Karine Perset is a moron. How she makes it sound like Google is the only smart company that has moved over to IPv6 is incredible.
And what is up with that second to last paragraph? "Bechtel, a San Francisco-based contractor, is able to profit from its operations on the Internet by setting up wireless connections that allow the company to monitor large projects, without putting at risk any lives, Perset said. "
Huh?! - DrLeePhD, on 05/19/2008, -2/+9welcome to Y2k-2.0
- inactive, on 05/19/2008, -1/+8Dammit, guys! I told you that the internet wasn't just some truck! Now look what you've done!
- linagee, on 05/19/2008, -1/+7go to calee-forn-eeyay and get some more internets!
- DefaultGen, on 05/19/2008, -6/+12I knew the tubes were too narrow.
- allhard, on 05/19/2008, -7/+13FAIL
Learn to use semicolons. - newstart, on 05/19/2008, -0/+6OMG! specialK16 broke the comment system!!!!
- swordedge, on 05/19/2008, -0/+6Asia maybe. The US has 2 billion IP addresses or about 6 for each. The rest of the world has about 3 people per address. They will upgrade and laugh at us for being so backwards.
- fanclerks, on 05/19/2008, -0/+6You're forgetting that for ISPs and everyone else to utilize IPv6 they have to upgrade their infrastructure. You need a more powerful router to handle the larger IPv6 packets. Also to fully utilize the features of IPv6, such as autoconfiguration, your router needs to support that.
I can only imagine what the cost is gonna be like when we upgrade the infrastructure at my work. - wanderson, on 05/19/2008, -0/+5No, there are 2^128 = 3.40282367 × 10^38 IP addresses in the IPv6 space. That's 5.6x10^28 addresses per person on the planet. It's a move that we really need to do, but conceivably only once.
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