World running out of IP addresses
“I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion would be enough to do an experiment,” Cerf, who is Google’s vice president and “chief internet evangelist”, was quoted as saying in an interview. “Who the hell knew how much address space we needed?”
Cerf who created the web protocol created the IPv4 in 1977. He said he never expected his experiment “wouldn’t end”. “It doesn’t mean the network stops, it just means you can’t build it very well,” Cerf said.
IP addresses are the unique sequence of numbers assigned to each computer, website or other internet-connected devices. They are not the same as website domain names. The overwhelming number of devices now accessing the internet means the addresses are running out fast.
To resolve the crisis, an updated protocol for the internet, IPv6, currently being planned by the industry, will create trillions of addresses.
Few, days back, we have a news that, Facebook and Google is working to bring next version of IP address protocol i.e. IPv6. We have to now, just wait and watch what is going to happen in recent future.
WOW who knew...
Started by Selena, Jan 23 2011 06:46 PM
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Posted 25 January 2011 - 08:12 AM
http://penrose.uk6x.com/ - (There are 6 days until IANA Central Registry IPv4 address exhaustion.)
Next week the world will collapse. Year 2012 is nearing...
Next week the world will collapse. Year 2012 is nearing...
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Posted 25 January 2011 - 11:53 AM
http://penrose.uk6x.com/ - (There are 6 days until IANA Central Registry IPv4 address exhaustion.)
Next week the world will collapse. Year 2012 is nearing...
Google and Facebook better hurry up with IPv6 otherwise I think we will have a technological breakdown
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Posted 25 January 2011 - 12:02 PM
Who knew that server that once was nice and cool only perm bans skilled players while its infected with real cheaters 90% of time? How hard can, for example, speedhack be to notice? Seems its extremely hard to notice if its on admins own team and helps with easy frags. Why else would it happen over and over again, year after another? Thats okay for me tho, i am not planning to play on a server where network quality is terrible, admins are hopeless retards and players are lowskilled bots.
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Posted 25 January 2011 - 12:04 PM
http://penrose.uk6x.com/ - (There are 6 days until IANA Central Registry IPv4 address exhaustion.)
Next week the world will collapse. Year 2012 is nearing...
Google and Facebook better hurry up with IPv6 otherwise I think we will have a technological breakdown
Its like "millennium bug" all over again. Not enough that dead bin laden sending tapes from the grave. Now this. The horror!
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Posted 25 January 2011 - 12:20 PM
http://penrose.uk6x.com/ - (There are 6 days until IANA Central Registry IPv4 address exhaustion.)
Next week the world will collapse. Year 2012 is nearing...
Google and Facebook better hurry up with IPv6 otherwise I think we will have a technological breakdown
Its like "millennium bug" all over again. Not enough that dead bin laden sending tapes from the grave. Now this. The horror!
Exactly! :/
Don't worry though, this just means don't go and buy a new device that is able to connect to the internet. ISP's will still be able to connect a whole ton of people because they purchase thousands upon thousands of IP addresses so that their business can run effectively.
................. Dont collapse pls ....... 
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