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Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:50:24 +0200
At 12:24 27/01/2011 +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 27/01/2011 11:21, Hank Nussbacher wrote:"I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses would be enough to do an experiment," Cerf was quoted as saying, adding it is his "fault" that "we were running out of the addresses.""Fortunately, web developers have fixed the problem according to Fox news:http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-anyones-guess/"Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones."It will be difficult initially, though:"But IPv6 isn't backwards-compatible with IPv4, meaning that it's not able to read most content that operates on an IPv4 system. At best, the user experience will be clunky and slow. At worst, instead of a webpage, all users will be able to view is a blank page."I'm glad Fox has cleared all this up for us.
I guess they are hiring TSA rejects. No other way to explain the cluelessness :-) -Hank
Nick
Current thread:
- Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Hank Nussbacher (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Skeeve Stevens (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Nick Hilliard (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Hank Nussbacher (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Owen DeLong (Jan 27)
- RE: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Brian Johnson (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Christopher Morrow (Jan 27)
- RE: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Brian Johnson (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Kee Hinckley (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Jay Ashworth (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses david raistrick (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses david raistrick (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Jeff Kell (Jan 27)
- RE: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses George, Wes E [NTK] (Jan 27)