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Last IPv4 address blocks assigned, ICANN pushes IPv6 adoption

article published on 3 February, 2011

On Thursday, the last top level block of free Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses was assigned, igniting a discussion about the future of the Internet and its rapid expansion to more locations and devices. IPv4 uses 32bit addressing to route data packets across the Internet, providing for 232 addresses, or 4,294,967,296 addresses. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is intended ... [ read the full article ]

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3. February 2011 @ 23:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
that's a lot of users, Woo Milestone acheviment.

But really ipv4 was a lot easier to read and remember then v6 lol

Back to the pen and paper i guess.
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3. February 2011 @ 23:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Even apple has copy and paste now...but yeah; IPV6 addresses are a lot trickier.


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3. February 2011 @ 23:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Be a little nicer if it was 2^64, so it could be easier to remember. Something like FFFF.FFFF.FFFF.FFFF
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4. February 2011 @ 01:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Been hearing about this all since 1998 and honestly it's a bit boring now.
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4. February 2011 @ 01:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hikaricor:
Been hearing about this all since 1998 and honestly it's a bit boring now.
But it has happened now Internet Porn got that popular that we need the extra digits hahahaha
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