We've finally run out of IPv4 addresses

[CrisisDog]

Yeah, IPv6 still isn't supported by my ISP, and probably never will be.

 

[Squid Surprise]

Gives each of our atoms an IP address.... but maybe some of my electrons want their OWN ip addresses??!?!?! What about them!!!! Break out IPv7!!!

 

[cliffordcooley]

You know what a google is? 1 followed by 100 zeroes.

I think that is googol not google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

Edit: I wouldn't have known if I hadn't just looked it up. lol

 

[9Nails]

http://ipv6test.google.com/

 

[9Nails]

So from, "Sorry, we don't have enough IPv4 Addresses for every person on Earth." To now, "Here's 480,000 IPv6 Addresses for each 7 Billion of you, let the games begin!"

 

[Alex25]

Makes you wonder why you should use a search engine from a company that never Googled the correct spelling of their own name.

You know what a google is? 1 followed by 100 zeroes.

I think that is googol not google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

Edit: I wouldn't have known if I hadn't just looked it up. lol

 

[Alex25]

Well, they won't release all ipv6 addresses out to the public all at once. It will be structured and distributed similar to how ipv4 is today. You will still have a small subset of private addresses, for example, and you will still have to be assigned a specific public address by your ISP. We're not completely free to do what we want with all those addresses all at once. I just hope all the fees and questions for obtaining your own public addresses goes away.

So from, "Sorry, we don't have enough IPv4 Addresses for every person on Earth." To now, "Here's 480,000 IPv6 Addresses for each 7 Billion of you, let the games begin!"

 

[oms47]

IT'S THE Y2K BUG ALL OVER AGAIN!

And what was the issue with IPv6? Basically every consumer router/modem is able to deal with IPv6, so that leaves ISP/businesses who are still stuck with ancient hardware?

Huge number of peoples are still using IPv4 as some developing country's IPS provided IPv4 as well as IPv6,
Whatever, It is the High time to move on....

 

[oms47]

About Time to>>>>
It's High Time To Move On>>>>
To ---- IPv6 <!!>

 

[captaincranky]

How manys are in a virgintillion.....

 

[Mr WW]

One would be surprised how many people already use IPV6 without knowing it.

 

[SirDigby]

That, probably, explains why my ISP has yet to support it.

No harm done - I'm not even sure if it's common knowledge to a lot of people, but I work for BT in the UK.

 

[Darth Shiv]

IT'S THE Y2K BUG ALL OVER AGAIN!

And what was the issue with IPv6? Basically every consumer router/modem is able to deal with IPv6, so that leaves ISP/businesses who are still stuck with ancient hardware?

Not by a long shot from my experience.

First of all, most websites do not support ipv6 (sure major ones like google do but have you checked every single website you visit supports it?). Secondly, most ISPs provide purely ipv4 services by default. Thirdly, the modems that do support ipv6 would need to be configured for it once allowed by ISP. 4th problem - ipv6 firewall configuration. Who honestly has configured an ipv6 firewall? Vast minority of the population.

And that's just the few problems off the top of my head. There is an enormous amount of change required to get ipv6 live.

What would be interesting if is you switched to IPv6 yourself and saw how far you could get...

 

[Emexrulsier]

I bet there are still millions out there though that have been purchased but never ever used. Like for example myself I am a small individual and I own 28 static ips, of those I am probably using 5 or 6 at most. So think of the massive companies that have bought 100s or even 1000s and don't use or need them. They should do some sort of IP amnesty

 

[Per Hansson]

One would be surprised how many people already use IPV6 without knowing it.

...And that's just the few problems off the top of my head. There is an enormous amount of change required to get ipv6 live.

What would be interesting if is you switched to IPv6 yourself and saw how far you could get...

21.5% of the US is already on IPv6, hardly an insignificant number: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6...y-ipv6-adoption&tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption

I bet there are still millions out there though that have been purchased but never ever used.

Such addresses are sold between companies now, due to the shortage of IPv4 addresses they have become quite expensive on the open market...
There are actually only ca 3.7 billion usable IPv4 addresses and not 4.3 billion as the article says, due to routing and other legacy reasons.
There are now over 7 billion people on this planet and most in the developed nations have a minimum of two devices that require an address, and the number of devices per person is only increasing...