No more room for www addresses how will they fix it
That is "just" IPv4. IPv6 has been around for ages with its 128 bit address space. With 6 billion people on the planet and the way IPv6 addresses are allocated that is of the order of 10^27 addresses per person.
There has simply been no need to switch until now. Businesses using NAT have delayed the fateful day by years.
Most ISPs don't provide IPv6 to home users, and few consumer grade routers support IPv6. Cisco 8xx routers do. There are probably a few others, but I haven't been looking for long.
What would we do without the internet? I shudder to think.
Congrats on the big 2000 Warren.
Maybe we would get some sanity back into the education system.
People would need to learn how to write letters
Hooray! no more facebook, Twitter, Utube and the havoc it causes.
So does anyone know if my router a Linksys WAG200G has support for IPv6 I have been googling and looking through the settings in the router and can't find anything about it and if it doesn't does that mean I need to upgrade. This is my IPv6 status currently I know nothing about this IPv6 and am starting to study it now had no reason to before now but I am on it now.
1. these notices are just that the central registery has made its final allocation to each of the regional registeries. We come under APNIC.
2. APNIC has just been allocated 3 /8 blocks of addresses each has ~16million addresses.
3. these will of course still run out but the current estimate is later this years ~ Sept.
IPv4 will not go away, everything will just keep running. It is only people who want to put new stuff on the Internet will only be able to get IPv6 addresses. There are various ways for the 2 systems to talk to each other.
If you do want to prepare, go and find out if/when your ISP will provide IPv6 support for its customers.
Yes, we will probably all need to go and get new modems but DON'T rush out and get one now. It will be a bit like digital TV. Both will exist together for a change over period. Initially we will get ripped off with the IPv6 modems, but then competition and volumes should kick in and they should be no more expensive than a current IPv4 model. That will be the time to change unless you find a compelling reason before that.
So does that mean that I will be able to access any website that is on IPv6 by a tunnel from IPv4 to IPv6. Thanks for the reply
There will always be little pockets of websites that you won't get to. But any business that wants to survive will make sure they are accessible to both.
The Government's going through an IPv4 to IPv6 transition program at the moment. It's an enormous project.
There's deeply entrenched bits of software (lots of B2B software) that doesn't have IPv6 capability and lots of alarm bells are ringing.
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Governments have been encouraging and even legislating for IPv6 support in buisiness for some time. Problem is that most have been getting around it becouse everything they have been buying supports IPv6 for some years now. It's just that very few have implemented it.
Just prior to the GFC it looked like IPv6 was about to ramp up. The rest is history.
Whilst addressing the Internet Society of Australia last week, Vint Cerf "urged associations and businesses to take action on deploying IPv6, rather than continuing to talk."
Article at PCWorld here - http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/articl...k_needed_ipv6/
The Internet Society has called for 8 Jun 2011 to be "World IPv6 Day".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Internet Society
On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour "test flight". The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out
I should be all good to go when IPv6 is finally rolled out with my ISP. I've been told that firmware for my Billion Modem/Router adding IPv6 support is due to come out Q1 2011.
I see the smiley, Kal, and I'll take it to mean you know it is wrong.
This attitude from the uninformed, aided and abetted by the sensationalist media, annoys me no end. Y2K was a real problem. Due to legal data retention requirements we had systems that had to be fixed before 1986-01-01.
The fact that it passed by with no significant problems was due to millions of hours of work by tens of thousands of IT people end design engineers around the world.
That is "just" IPv4. IPv6 has been around for ages with its 128 bit address space. With 6 billion people on the planet and the way IPv6 addresses are allocated that is of the order of 10^27 addresses per person.
There has simply been no need to switch until now. Businesses using NAT have delayed the fateful day by years.
Most ISPs don't provide IPv6 to home users, and few consumer grade routers support IPv6. Cisco 8xx routers do. There are probably a few others, but I haven't been looking for long.
Yeah i was thinking of this as well, Windows Vista and 7 are automatically ready for receiving IPv6 although not sure about XP.
I see the smiley, Kal, and I'll take it to mean you know it is wrong.
This attitude from the uninformed, aided and abetted by the sensationalist media, annoys me no end. Y2K was a real problem. Due to legal data retention requirements we had systems that had to be fixed before 1986-01-01.
The fact that it passed by with no significant problems was due to millions of hours of work by tens of thousands of IT people end design engineers around the world.
Andrew
I was going to say the same thing, Y2K was a real problem. Bit as you said, perserverance, planning and just plain hard work by millions of people made a molehill out of a mountain.
IPv4/v6 will be another Y2K like problem, it is not going to stop the Internet, it just halts its expansion until millions of people put in the hard work to move the boundaries.
The big problem with IPv6 is that they threw out a great well understood technology and replaced it with a great technology that no one understands.
No wonder my computer doesn't work right... I've got too many numbers in my IP address...
This author needs to research better...
This always amuses me. TV and movies all seem to use invalid IP addresses, no doubt for the same reason their phone numbers are always xxx-555-xxxx so no real person gets pestered. (When Telstra issued 555-xxxx numbers in Sydney they were very unpopular.)
There are numerous correct ways to express an IPv4 address. The only strict rules are that you can't have more than 3 dots, and any number with a dot on its right can not be bigger than 255.
You do not have to express the numbers in decimal. The can also be in octal or hexadecimal. You can mix decimal, octal and hex in the one address. These are all valid and all mean the same address - 123.45.67.89 (which happens to belong to Samsung if anyone cares).
