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Can someone explain to me how about a decade ago we were going to run out of IPv4 addresses in a matter of months and we needed to switch to IPv6 or else, but n
by yakattak 5y ago
Can someone explain to me how about a decade ago we were going to run out of IPv4 addresses in a matter of months and we needed to switch to IPv6 or else, but now we’re still using it fine?
- akvadrako 5y agoThe price per IP used to be almost nothing, now it's about $5/month and will keep going up; you can see these costs clearly with inexpensive hosting providers like Hetzner. As a result many home and mobile users only get personal IPv6 addresses with IPv4 connections being tunneled over shared addresses.
- iso1631 5y agoNot sure who's charging you $5 a month, but $3.70 will get you a VM and an IP, and extra IPs are $1.60 a month on this site https://www.cheapvps.co.uk/plans-openvz.php https://www.cheapvps.co.uk/plans-openvz.php
- CodesInChaos 5y agoMany users don't even have a dedicated IPv4 anymore (dual stack lite) thanks to carrier grade NAT.
- junon 5y agoI would pretty strongly oppose the notion we're using it "fine". IPv4 address allocation requests are on waiting lists. As of November, almost all requests have stopped fulfilling. We've completely run out of them.
- p_l 5y agolots of multiple-layer NATs, plus some legacy blocks got sold to cloud providers
- throw0101a 5y ago> but now we’re still using it fine? You're saying CGNAT is fine? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT That having to NAT on your home Linksys/Asus and then getting NATed again by your ISP is fine? If you want to allow a connection to your PC or gaming system, how do you hole punch a double-NAT exactly?