2011-02-04, 02:46 AM
Khoi Wrote:Not sure on whether we really are running out of IPv4 addresses or not, but it's going to happen eventually.
There's nothing to be uncertain of -
They assigned the last two blocks earlier this week to APNIC, hit their emergency last-distribution threshold and automatically distributed the five final /8s to the regional Internet registries per their pre-existing policy for exhaustion.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/01/...-Allocated
They streamed a live announcement earlier discussing it.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/03/...nouncement
Mute Wrote:Can someone explain please how this IPv6 is better than IPv4 in laymans terms? Is it simply just more numbers available for use for website addresses to use?
For the average user you don't give a damn except it means you're going to actually continue to have IP addresses available for the forseeable future a lot of software is likely to break without additional translation layers and your pretty little IP address you're used to is going to suddenly be in a freaky hexidecimal notation ( bye bye 127.0.0.1, hello 3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf )
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.