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| Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 2:33:46 AM #39499 |
 ColinFiat Site Admin 'JavaScript' Level 26 Posts: 1,359 Submissions: 89  | Internet will run out of IP addresses by 2010, warns Vint Cerf Quote Vint Cerf Sept 2008: Vint Cerf, the man who helped invent the system and one of the world's leading computer scientists, said that the web does not have enough unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other.He said that when the internet protocol (IP) addresses do run out, the connectivity of the internet will be damaged and some computers will not be able to go online. "This is like the internet running out of telephone numbers and with no new numbers, you can't have more subscribers," he said. Quote NetworkWorld: Available IPv4 addresses dwindle below 10% The long-awaited depletion of the Internet's primary address space came one step closer to reality on Tuesday with the announcement that fewer than 10% of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. The Number Resource Organization (NRO), the official representative of the five Regional Internet Registries, made the announcement. The Regional Internet Registries allocate blocks of IP addresses to ISPs and other network operators. So there's less than 10% available. But the internet is near saturation. The time taken for the remaining IPv4 addresses to be taken will be longer than than the first 90%. Or so I recon. |
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| Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 7:49:36 AM #39501 |
 Toasty SysOp Level 40 Posts: 7,388 Submissions: 227 | Retarded fucking doomsday people. The news is always leaning towards the "end of the world." I guess I don't want to know that there was a rainbow out on a gay wedding day, or that there was a cute bunny prancing through Europe; but I'm getting really annoyed with Y2K, 2012, Terrorism, and this sort of crap. For those of you without the technical background, IPv6 is an easy cure, and more likely than not, your system supports it. |
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