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On Wed, 12 May 2010, James Fidell wrote:
Simon Waters wrote:Afraid "IPv4 address exhaustion" is up there with "the rapture" and "the return of the messiah" as long expected. The only difference being we know IPv4 addresses exist.This is true. People have been talking about the imminent exhaustion of the IPv4 address space for ten years or more.
At least 15 years...I was working for an ISP in 1995 when the great debate was kicking off and CIDR was "invented" Lots of routers back then (ie. cisco) were buggy as they had all the netmasks for the old "Class A,B,C" networks hard-wired into them. We were using BSD boxes as routers back then, so didn't really have any issues with the "experimental" /16's RIPE gave us (out of Class A space) to .. er .. experiment with. (And people today still talk about Class A, B, .. networks )-:
There are still large pockets of unsed IP's and their owners will be squeezed into releasing them in time - that won't solve the problem, just delay it a while.
However there is still a lot of kit (routers, etc.) out there that's not IPv6 ready - and it never will be, so people who've invested in this kit will not want to change - just yet anyway.
Enta are supposed to have ipv6 offerings - might chase them up about it... My co-lo hosting provider isn't really intersted in it right now though, and I suspect that's the case with a lot of them, however a friend who runs another ISP in Bristol has embraced ipv6, so I might chat to him about his experiences with it so-far...
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