Ifyour grandmother's Facebook account wasn't a tell-tale 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 U.S. 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:
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 U.S. 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 bitch in the future. Oh, ALSO, we'll all have to get new routers! (Naturally)
But IPv6 is still in its infancy and is still a few years from being put into use on any sort of widespread level. Until then, the Internet will get by on a diet of repurposed and recycled IP addresses. 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.
But IPv6 is still in its infancy and is still a few years from being put into use on any sort of widespread level. Until then, the Internet will get by on a diet of repurposed and recycled IP addresses. 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.
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Guess that's the end for the internet.
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The world is most certainly ending... >:3
this will make every device have a static ip address.
win2003 server are compatible IPv6 standard, you can have it on your local network
omg the world is doomed
Hightly informative. Good post.
woah didn't know it was going to be this soon! IPv6 is going to be good I think. Room for a lot more cross-talk.
oh noes! We run out of internetz?
what on earth will we ever do
wow, and to think of all the times I'd change my IP address just to get access to a forum I was banned from. I just assumed IP addresses were already being recycled.
The funniest part about this is that if someone got banned from a popular website like facebook, and then changed their IP, someone else can now get that same IP and find themselves banned from Facebook for no reason.
It's nothing to worry about, unless you're IT support for a major company you won't have to do a thing.
NO MORE INTERNETS!! But how will I faps?
lol thats impossible. ive heard of this rumour since the beginning of the internet :D
Bye-bye Internets.
Interesting article.
That day in june may mean total chaos. imagine it doesn't work....
This is going to be pretty interesting. Hopefully nothing will go wrong. Wonder how long until all the IPv6 addresses run out? :P
sign of 2012!! :O
LOL...jk
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IPv6 will be the solution.
Will this solution be deployed in time ? Time will tell.
Ugh, I think my heads going to hurt when I have to troubleshoot networking crap in the future.
IPv6 will solve this but will be a difficult change for everyone
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The Internet gets bigger and bigger every day so things like these have to be done. Who knows what will happen when we run out of ipv6 addresses in the future!
My internets is a pipe you say?
This is serious business.
IPv6 is already in use :) Just slowly taking over
woops, fml!
WE NEED MORE TUBES! A BIGGER SERIES OF TUBES!
sounds nice more IP addresses for the empire known as Google
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Wut????
Holy snikeys I hadn't realized WHAT the new addresses would look like. my generic 192.168.1.1 is easy but that new stuff. Again ... HOLY SNIKEYS BATMAN!
So we are out of tubes?
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is this the end of the internet?
Wow trillions? Guess we're good forever then
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