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In an article in the Hindustan Times, The American Registry is quoted as telling us that they are running out of IPV4 addresses.
On Wednesday July 1, the ARIN - in charge of North America - was forced to turn down a request for a block of IP addresses for the first time in history. The CIO Richard Jimmerson told CBS news "We are weeks away from having zero left."
On the same subject, Arstechnica details the emerging IPv4 address trading market.
We spoke to Janine Goodman, vice president of Avenue4, a broker of IPv4 addresses, about what to expect in the short term.
"IPv6 is going to happen, that's the direction it's going," she said. "But it's going to take a while. Organizations are not ready to turn to IPv6 tomorrow; this will take a few years. A transfer market allows for the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 in a responsible way, not a panicked way."
"The price for blocks of IPv4 addresses of 65,536 addresses (a /16) or smaller is about $7 to $8 per address in the ARIN region. In other regions, which have fewer addresses out there, the price tends to be a little higher," Goodman said. "We expect the IPv4 market to be around for at least three to five years. During that time, the price per address will likely go up and then finally come back down as IPv6 is being widely deployed."
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @04:25PM
Can I and everyone else get our 100 billion public IPv6 addresses apiece now?
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Sunday July 05 2015, @05:05PM
If your ISP doesn't give you an IPv6, go to tunnelbroker.net and they'll assign you a /64 network. That's quite a bit more than 100 billion IPv6 addresses. It's exactly 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. It's over 18 quintillion addresses. It's for one normal network. If you want more, you just need to click a button to get a /48, or 65k of those /64 networks.
(Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Sunday July 05 2015, @06:41PM
tunnelbroker.net got some interesting pages:
Global IPv6 Deployment Progress Report [he.net]
Top-10 top level domains IPv6 IP records vs IPv4:
100.0 au
56.5 xn--j6w193g (Hong Kong)
26.3 de
16.2 xn--j1amh (Ukraine, ykp)
11.2 hk
10.9 sk
8.0 io
6.5 sh
6.5 ne
6.3 info
(The Australian .au domain seems weird?)
Top-10 top level domains with IPv6 IP records:
18.1 de
15.4 xn--j6w193g
14.5 xn--j1amh
10.0 au
6.9 sk
6.5 hk
5.5 io
5.5 info
3.9 to
3.5 org
Perhaps Germany and Hong Kong are the places where IPv6 progress actually happens?
To see where the nearest IPv6 tunnel node is physically:
Hurricane Electric network map.pdf [he.net]
List of the tunnel server status:
Tunnel Server Status [tunnelbroker.net]
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday July 06 2015, @05:15AM
Maybe. Here in Canada, our main ISPs celebrated IPv6 day by....making their home pages accessible via IPv6. Only their home pages.
I think one or two of them will let you get IPv6 support if you sign up for business-class service AND you get fiber to your location. Evidently, they can't find a cable or DSL modem that supports IPv6.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday July 05 2015, @08:28PM
go to tunnelbroker.net and they'll assign you a /64 network.
And when you get there, be prepared to be totally confused.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.