Posted on 01/26/2011 12:18:01 PM PST by Sub-Driver
The Internet Is Nearly Out of IP Addresses
Published January 26, 2011 | News Corp Australian Papers
It's the end of the web as we know it.
Every Internet-connected computer, smartphone, car, gadget and gizmo is assigned a four-digit IP address that lets it communicate with the net, thanks to a system known as IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). And the flood of new gadgets means we're running out of those addresses.
"That distribution system is coming to a close," said Geoff Hutson, the chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC). “In the coming few days and weeks -- no longer -- the central pool is going to run out.”
Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones.
But IPv6 isn't backwards-compatible with IPv4, meaning that it's not able to read most content that operates on an IPv4 system. At best, the user experience will be clunky and slow. At worst, instead of a webpage, all users will be able to view is a blank page.
Hutson said the problem and solution for the IP address shortage presents the classic Catch-22 situation.
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I got mine, so the rest of you are SOL.
There’s really no need to have a public IP address for every device that needs internet access.
ping
Obama will fix this.
Well heck, just print more!
Wasn’t this “not enough digits” thing the cause of the Y2K panic?
I’m sure that government can fix this problem. Of course, it will require raising taxes, banning guns, and forming a union to protect all the rights of IP address workers.
I don’t see a problem. IP4 and IP6 have been running together for many years
I got mine also. I wonder what people will pay for it?
All your IP addresses are belong to us!
“Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 — a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones.”
Um, yeah. Something like that.
Don’t worry they will fix it in time! I won’t worry about this just because of the national disaster created in 2000 year clock problem!!!!!
I got my ammo and canned food.
You’re on your own.
Hard to believe there's only 9,999 devices connected to the internet out there.
Man, those sure are some smart "Web Developers". I remember when it used to require engineers, scientists and Al Gore to create such things.
It’s suspect...there’s something else up their sleeve.
Well log off.
Other people need to use your IP address.
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