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Is it just hard, or downright impossible since IPv4 depletion?

• p1mrx 13y ago
  ARIN hasn't reached zero yet: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/ http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/ But if you're going to start an ISP, you'd best do it in the next few months. Europe and Asia are already screwed.
• hrrsn 13y ago
  Hard, not impossible. I presume the second market for IPv4 addresses is going to go through the roof once we hit complete depletion. I'm with a ~6 month old ISP here in New Zealand, by default everyone is behind CG NAT, but you can request a public IP.
  • p1mrx 13y ago
    You at least give everyone a block of IPv6 without needing to ask, right?
    • dijit 13y ago
      yeah everyone gets a /64, however, since 90% of sites (even if they claim to have AAAA records) do not actually support ipv6 yet. I'm one of those people unfortunately, mostly because my DDoS mitigation and countermeasures are not IPv6 ready- and I can't risk my companies business since it's all public facing ecommerce. :\ although, yeah, you could put everyone behind a NAT for ipv4, but then you have the same problem as with Quatar (or was it Saudi Arabia) where masses of people are blocked because they all exit onto the internet from the same place.