Holy cow cocks batman

[Squirt]

In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks of net addresses to give out, estimates suggest.

Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which the last of those tranches is released for net firms and others to use.

Everything connected to the net needs an "IP address" to ensure data reaches the right person or device.

Experts say that the net's entire existing address space will be exhausted about a year after that date.

A newer scheme is being rolled out but many firms and countries are being slow to switch, experts warn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10105978.stm

[nohunta]

Wat?

[cpinney]

Wat?

basically if you can't get an address you can't be on the internet, and if there are more people than addresses then some people won't be able to get on.

[Reise]

IPv6 will take care of that.

[Doppleganger]

[Miguez]

What I still don't get it

[Blindfire]

They are running out of number combinations for IP adresses.

[CeLL]

its like they run out of houses on the internet. so some will be homeless.

[wootpops]

add another .xx ?

[heroo]

IPv6 will take care of that.

[Evil_Venom]

Hmm if your IP is XX.XXX.XXX.XXX then thats 11 numbers. Since your IP can't start with a zero, at least I think, that leaves 10 X's with 10 different possibilities and 1 X with 9 possibilities. If I am correct this means there are 90,000,000,000 different possible IP address'.

If that is the case I don't know how we could run out of IP's. My guess is that IP's are created a much different way then just random numbers. Something more regional I suppose. But even this way there would be even more available because say the last 3 digits of your IP were your location code then that would create more due to the ability to repeat the first 8 digits.

I don't know if any of that is relevant I would have to do more research but it just seems to me that it would be rather hard to run out of IP address'.

[TOloseGT]

yea, i read somewhere like months ago that the ip address type we use now will run out of available numbers, but that they will use a newer ip address type with more numbers..

...or something

[Mirosuke]

oh kk

[Deadsolid]

No biggie.

What's more concerning is Moore's Law.

[MrTwilliger]

IPV4, the current IP protocol standard, uses a 32 bit number for IP addresses. This means there's a theoretical 2^32 IP addresses available, or 4,294,967,296 IP addresses. Impressive, no? But with a population well over 6 billion it will, eventually, run out.

IPV6, the newest addition to the IP protocol standard, uses a 128 bit number for IP addresses. This gives us a theoretical 2^128 IP addresses, which is... *clear throat* 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IP addresses. Like stated above, IPV6 will more than fix the problem. For now anyway

[evilpeta]

IPV4, the current IP protocol standard, uses a 32 bit number for IP addresses. This means there's a theoretical 2^32 IP addresses available, or 4,294,967,296 IP addresses. Impressive, no? But with a population well over 6 billion it will, eventually, run out.

IPV6, the newest addition to the IP protocol standard, uses a 128 bit number for IP addresses. This gives us a theoretical 2^128 IP addresses, which is... *clear throat* 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IP addresses. Like stated above, IPV6 will more than fix the problem. For now anyway

[MrTwilliger]

Ahh I missed the 2, typos suck >_> Thanks for picking it up. for me. Edited.

[[SD]Twysta]

Hmm if your IP is XX.XXX.XXX.XXX then thats 11 numbers. Since your IP can't start with a zero, at least I think, that leaves 10 X's with 10 different possibilities and 1 X with 9 possibilities. If I am correct this means there are 90,000,000,000 different possible IP address'.

If that is the case I don't know how we could run out of IP's. My guess is that IP's are created a much different way then just random numbers. Something more regional I suppose. But even this way there would be even more available because say the last 3 digits of your IP were your location code then that would create more due to the ability to repeat the first 8 digits.

I don't know if any of that is relevant I would have to do more research but it just seems to me that it would be rather hard to run out of IP address'.

Nah, it's not Because there are "ranges" with IP adresses. And not every combination is possible (in fact, very limited).

[EvGa]

No biggie.

What's more concerning is Moore's Law.

It's too bad we can't sustain it forever.. but this is interesting:



I hope I live to be 90+.

[Snazzi]

No more bots ftw ?

[Deadsolid]

No biggie.

What's more concerning is Moore's Law.

It's too bad we can't sustain it forever.. but this is interesting:

Spoiler!

I hope I live to be 90+.

I believe that graph is outdated. The current estimate is at 2025 for a processor that can mimic the human brain. I could be mixing that up with the estimate of when Moore's law is supposed to be fulfilled.

[curvekiller]

IPv6 will take care of that.

Exactly. Vista and 7 already support it, just the providers need to switch.

[Xawkes]

IPv6 will take care of that.

Exactly. Vista and 7 already support it, just the providers need to switch.

Toasters and stuff like that will have IP too

[MrTwilliger]

The automated-network Toaster. A entire loaf is bread is pre-loaded into a sealed off air tight storage container. With a simple crtl+alt+T command 2 pieces (or 4, if specified) of the toast are automtically placed upon the grill of the toaster, a timing amount is apsecified and the toast begins to cook.

Sounds like a million dollar idea to me