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We ran out of IPv4 addresses again. How many times has this happened this past decade? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174992 https://news.ycombinator.co
by ejbam 7y ago
We ran out of IPv4 addresses again. How many times has this happened this past decade?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174992 9y
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480532 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480532 7y
Looking forward to the next time we run out of IPv4 addresses.
- p1mrx 7y agoYour first link was when IANA allocated five final /8s to the RIRs, including RIPE. Your second link was when RIPE reached their final /8, and switched to a "one /22 per company" rationing policy. Today, the rations ran out.
- q3k 7y agoThese are different levels of exhaustion. First link: Last ICANN (global) RIR-reserved block assigned allocated to a RIR. End of the line for blocks that were globally reserved for, but yet unused by RIRs. Second link: RIPE (a RIR) has one month until it starts distributing its last /8 block (185.0.0.0/8) to LIRs. Now: 185.0.0.0/8 and small bits and bobs that RIPE still had for LIRs (ISPs) is gone. No more IPv4 for European/ME ISPs from RIPE, only gray market available. The previous posts were the writing on the wall. Now we're actually fucked.
- ta0987 7y agoI wonder which will happen next, IP addresses again or Voyager leaving the solar system again?