August 17, 2010
Posted by Ye Myat
IPv4 Exhuastion Counter
So I was talking with a network administrator and we suddenly stumbled upon this IPv4 depletion issue. He pointed out me to a site where it has this tickin down counter until the exhaustion of reserved IPv4 addresses. Networking is actually a total different field that I’m suck at. All I know is how to set up a small local area home networks. So I head to the famous wikipedia.
Well, according to the counter, the estimated IPv4 depletion date is 21st June 2011.
While IPv4 addresses are running out from the reserved block, the implementation of IPv6 are still kicking in slowly. IPv6 is one-reakingly-long-address-with-128-Bit-hard-to-memorize-hexa-decimal-digits. Woah..
IPv6 is one of the practical solution to overcome this matter.
But wait.. its not something like a dooms day or Y2K. This issue doesn’t affect the private networks, like your home and mine for instance. You’d probably won’t even notice when that day finally comes. We’r safe.
source: IPv4 address exhaustion(Wikipedia)
img src: xkcd.com
1 Comments
September 27, 2010
WERE GONNA DIE!!!
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