Last of the IPv4 addresses assigned

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A bit of interesting new for all of you in the Telecoms industry. Get ready to start learning IPv6 :D

Miami/Berlin - The internet reached a watershed moment on Thursday when the authority in charge of IP addresses allocated the last available addresses.

The Miami, Florida-based Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana) said it had allocated the last of the so-called IPv4 address spaces.

A few days ago, Iana said it was down to the last five unallocated "Class A" batches, each containing 16 million addresses.

The allocation means that Iana has reached the full capacity of 4.3 billion IP addresses around the globe.

Iana now says it is speeding up work on the next-generation IP address, the Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6.

- SAPA
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Those last chunks have been bought up by ISP's doesn't mean they were allocated just yet?

I was talking to a guy in the army in America, he says the Navy is fully IPv6 and the Army is in shambles :D
 
IPv6 is still in development. There is one security flaw which can potentially allow an attacker to gain full access to your machine. When it's stable etc, then it will be adopted worldwide. Also, there's no place like 0::7f00:1.
 
czc said:
Those last chunks have been bought up by ISP's doesn't mean they were allocated just yet?

I was talking to a guy in the army in America, he says the Navy is fully IPv6 and the Army is in shambles :D
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No of course not. There's still a good couple left that's unused, but they need to start pulling finger with IPv6.
 
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