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I think it's first time this year I heard about the end of IPs. Such news tend to come out every few months. Quite often for a thing that won't have such a big

by ancymon 15y ago

I think it's first time this year I heard about the end of IPs. Such news tend to come out every few months. Quite often for a thing that won't have such a big impact on "normal" people...

bittermang 15y ago
Previous reports were the pending exhaustion of available IP addresses based on projections of current use vs. the remaining number. This is the first report of actually running out. No more speculation. Out. No more. Reserved.
- djcapelis 15y ago
  To be fair it actually means they've cracked open their last /8 and they're almost out. It won't take them that long to exhaust this last space, but there are for the moment, still addresses available from APNIC for the Asian Pacific region. These new addresses have gone into the last phase of contingency rules though, and are available under a different procedure than has allowed people to request IPs from APNIC in the past. Also it should be noted once again that this just effects the asia/pacific region. ARIN, RIPE, LACNIC and AfriNIC are still allocating addresses. Though most of them have applied some form of exhaustion rules. In these regions, IPs are not projected to run out for months yet and in the case of AfriNIC, years.
  - pieter 15y ago
    No, as stated in this article, this last /8 is special and they'll only hand out 1024 addresses ONCE for every APNIC member. Effectively they've run out, these addresses can only be used for transitioning purposes, 1024 addresses are useless to hand over to end customers.
pyre 15y ago
Just because there are more doomsayers the closer that we get to the apocalypse, doesn't mean that apocalypse isn't going to happen just because "it hasn't happened yet."
pieter 15y ago
You didn't see the post about IANA depleting their end of the IP spectrum? [1]. This was the first sign this year that things are speeding up, and had a pretty big post on YC [2] [1] https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110203.html https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110203.html [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129710 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129710

by ancymon 15y ago

I think it's first time this year I heard about the end of IPs. Such news tend to come out every few months. Quite often for a thing that won't have such a big impact on "normal" people...

bittermang 15y ago

Previous reports were the pending exhaustion of available IP addresses based on projections of current use vs. the remaining number. This is the first report of actually running out. No more speculation. Out. No more. Reserved.

djcapelis 15y ago
To be fair it actually means they've cracked open their last /8 and they're almost out. It won't take them that long to exhaust this last space, but there are for the moment, still addresses available from APNIC for the Asian Pacific region. These new addresses have gone into the last phase of contingency rules though, and are available under a different procedure than has allowed people to request IPs from APNIC in the past. Also it should be noted once again that this just effects the asia/pacific region. ARIN, RIPE, LACNIC and AfriNIC are still allocating addresses. Though most of them have applied some form of exhaustion rules. In these regions, IPs are not projected to run out for months yet and in the case of AfriNIC, years.
- pieter 15y ago
  No, as stated in this article, this last /8 is special and they'll only hand out 1024 addresses ONCE for every APNIC member. Effectively they've run out, these addresses can only be used for transitioning purposes, 1024 addresses are useless to hand over to end customers.

pyre 15y ago

Just because there are more doomsayers the closer that we get to the apocalypse, doesn't mean that apocalypse isn't going to happen just because "it hasn't happened yet."

pieter 15y ago

You didn't see the post about IANA depleting their end of the IP spectrum? [1]. This was the first sign this year that things are speeding up, and had a pretty big post on YC [2] [1] https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110203.html https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110203.html [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129710 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129710