TriniTuner.com | Latest Event:
Moderator: 3ne2nr Mods
Oh Noes!: The Internetz Is Almost Out Of IP Addresses
If your grandmother’s Facebook account wasn’t a telltale sign that the internet has come of age, here’s another: after this week, the internet will run out of new IPv4 addresses. But don’t fret, because we’re moving on up to IPv6!
For those unfamiliar with what IP addresses do, they serve as the internet’s navigation system in many ways. When you type in a URL/domain name to visit a site, it’s attached to an IP address which handles all the dirty work of connecting you to the server the website is stored on. Just like the Wall Street Journal says, this is a lot like the moment when phone companies in the US switched to 10-digit numbers.
The IPv4 addresses theoretically range between 4 and 12 digits, have a size of 32-bits and have 4.3 billion possible address combinations. I’m fairly certain all of you have dealt with IPv4 addresses, which look something like this:
68.127.78.247 (or http://68.127.78.247, when entering them into a browser)
With the change to IPv6, addresses will be 128-bits in size and up to 32 digits long, allowing for 340 trillion trillion trillion unique addresses. When it is finally implemented, it will look something like this:
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 (or http://[2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334] in a browser)
And with a whole gang of other notation rules, configuring your router is going to be a beyotch in the future. And of course, we’ll all have to get new routers!
Thankfully, IPv6 is still in its infancy and is still a few years from being put into use on any sort of widespread level. But for a single day in June, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and a couple of other internet giants will switch over to IPv6-compatible servers to test out the new protocol and find out if there are any major kinks in the system. [WSJ]
TRAE wrote:welcome IPv6 Beyatches
redmanjp wrote:TRAE wrote:welcome IPv6 Beyatches
not many IT admins gonna enjoy the transition though- unless the routers by themselves can translate from IPv4 to IPv6 without configuring computers to be IPv6 compliant
bluesteel29 wrote:redmanjp wrote:TRAE wrote:welcome IPv6 Beyatches
not many IT admins gonna enjoy the transition though- unless the routers by themselves can translate from IPv4 to IPv6 without configuring computers to be IPv6 compliant
redmanjp wrote:TRAE wrote:welcome IPv6 Beyatches
not many IT admins gonna enjoy the transition though- unless the routers by themselves can translate from IPv4 to IPv6 without configuring computers to be IPv6 compliant
pugboy wrote:most techs don't even understand the basic math of subnets, hope ipv6 not harder
supremacy_007 wrote:IPV6 has been programmed into systems since 1996, however as for routewrs the reconfiguration will be necessary, i not worried, we will prevail...
matthewmazda wrote:it man made so no worrys
redmanjp wrote:TRAE wrote:welcome IPv6 Beyatches
not many IT admins gonna enjoy the transition though- unless the routers by themselves can translate from IPv4 to IPv6 without configuring computers to be IPv6 compliant
ghostbusters wrote:supremacy_007 wrote:IPV6 has been programmed into systems since 1996, however as for routewrs the reconfiguration will be necessary, i not worried, we will prevail...
first time setup should be the same, dont we have both IP addresses available ? why would the router need to be reconfigured? most of the net backbone is compliant and if its not, re routing through v6 compliant hardware is easily handled. just askin...
nismodriver wrote:Whatcha talking about Willis?
IPV6 content requires IPV6 peering by ISPs.
Not sure which other Providers did this, but apparently Flow did. And IPV6 content accessible.
Note, tomorrow is IPV6 day !
redmanjp wrote:TRAE wrote:welcome IPv6 Beyatches
not many IT admins gonna enjoy the transition though- unless the routers by themselves can translate from IPv4 to IPv6 without configuring computers to be IPv6 compliant
Black Start wrote:once tuner running....me aint give ah f*ck....
Return to “Ole talk and more Ole talk”
Users browsing this forum: Google Adsense [Bot], Shannon, The_Honourable and 58 guests
