Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses

miladus writes "According to a story at Zdnet, Asian countries are running out of IP addresses. China, for example, was assigned 22 million IP addresses (for a population of 1.3 billion) under IPv4. The US owns 70 percent of current IP addresses. Perhaps IPv6 will solve the problem."

70% Seems fair

[WinterSolstice]

I guess that's our return on the whole dot-bomb thing :) -WS

IPv6 soon?

[zoloto]

I'm still waiting for duke nukem forever!

This again?

[FatSean]

The world has been running out of IP addresses, and suffering from global warming for as long as I can remember...

Re:70% Seems fair

[Anonymous Coward]

Give em a few of those linksys routers...

Re:70% Seems fair

[agentZ]

It means that all of your IP addresses are belong to us. Wait a second--

32 bits ought to be enough

[D0wnsp0ut]

Perhaps IPv6 will solve the problem.

Perhaps this could signal a limit on the amount of spam coming from China?

SCO SAYS...

[crazyphilman]

All your IP are belong to us!!!

Re:This again?

[TopShelf]

yeah, next thing you know they'll be carping about us running out of fossil fuels...

Asia

[caluml]

But I thought the Internet was "America Online"?

china only needs one

[ashultz]

China wants to filter the entire internet anyway, so they might as well only use one and point it at the Great Firewall of China.

I'm envisioning a billion little linksys router boxes glued together like bricks.

No...

[weston]

If IPv6 is actually adopted before the heat-death of the universe, we'll probably be running out of IP addresses for Mars.

Re:This again?

[theedge318]

Now if only we could figure out how to use NAT's to solve the global warming problem or the fossil fuel shortage.

Maybe they should limit them!

[mhore]

Only 1 per family.

*ducks*

Japan can have some of our IP addresses...

[ibbie]

...when they start releasing their US-version video games and anime in a more timely manner. :D

Korea wasteful of IP addresses

[whoever57]

Of course, Asia's problem is entirely unrelated to Korea handing out blocks of 64 numbers to elementary schools, blocks of 128 to middle schools, etc.

Have they not heard of NAT?

Re:IPv6?

[pVoid]

Yeah... NAT off the great firewall of China.

I can just see in the far far future, when there will be sentient computer programs, they will refer to China as "the anti-matter land"...

"Mother sentient program: In the anti-matter land, there is someone with the exact same IP address as yours son...

Child sentient program: Woooww..."

Re:70% Seems fair

[Sexy Commando]

Aren't Linksys routers made in Taiwan?

Re:Article Text

[kiolbasa]

"Most vendors have worked to ensure their products have interoperability between IPv6 and IPv4 and because migration and deployment of IPv6 networks across the globe will be gradual,

gradual as michael easing himself into taco's backside, the two standards will coexist for many years to come."

So, do you do this to subvert the moderators, or to catch logged-in karma whores who copy-paste AC posts of the article text into their own posts?

Re:time to give split up some class A's ?

[Anonymous Coward]

I know a guy at MIT, he's personally using 3 million addresses, just by himself.

Re:They should really swap to IPV6 then..

[frisket]

Better, they should cut off all the Chinese spammers. You'd free up maybe half the 22M addresses that way.

I don't want to buy a goddamn bulldozer from Gung-Ho Province.

this newsbreak...

[Connie_Lingus]

has been sponsered by Cisco and Nortel, makers of fine routers and hubs since...well, for a couple of years now.

Re:NO IP for YOU!!!

[irving47]

That's funny. We used to call our IP administrator the IP Nazi.

Of course, that changed when he was promoted and the new guy was German... Well, it changed out loud in public!

Re:They should really swap to IPV6 then..

[Anonymous Coward]

IPv6 doesn't really exist though, like santa, the tooth fairy and eskimos....

Me too...

[FuzzyDaddy]

The world has been running out of IP addresses, and suffering from global warming for as long as I can remember...

And people tell me I'm going to die some day for as long as I can remember... of all the crazy ideas...

Re:time to give split up some class A's ?

[Tim Macinta]

I'm sure that even MIT isn't using all 16.something million addresses their 18.foo class A allows for.

How would anybody know when their laundry is done [mit.edu] then? And what exactly are they supposed to do when using the bathroom [mit.edu]? Why don't we all just go back to using slide rules while we're at it?

Re:As I see it...

[TopShelf]

Then why don't they just try IPv5 as an interim step, so it wouldn't be so scary to take on???

Re:time to give split up some class A's ?

[Anonymous Coward]

And what exactly are they supposed to do when using the bathroom?

That brings new meaning to the term "IP" address.

Re:good, less spam

[Tablizer]

It is all those spam servers over there that use it up :-)

Re:This again?

[Deanasc]

Didn't they start running out of addresses the minute the first address was issued?

Re:They should really swap to IPV6 then..

[twinkyminator]

Oh, thats true, but to see them (ipv6, santa, tooth fairy and stuff) you have to belive in them!

It's like peter pan (and LSD, for whoever that may concern) you can fly if you belive you can...

Re:This again?

[puppet10]

and fusion power is 40 years away from commercial practicality...

Re:70% Seems fair

[Xformer]

Should get them a shipping discount, if nothing else .

Re:"Perhaps" IPV6 will solve the problem?

[SeattleGameboy]

Are you an just ignorant idiot or IQ-challenged fool who refuses to learn ANY mathmatics? Dude! Read the post! It clearly states IPV6 will provide 665,570,793,348,866,943,898,599 per square meter of the planet earth!!! If you believe you will have 665,570,793,348,866,943,898,599 story tall building convering every square inch of this planet within next million billion years - you are an idiot. READ before you post... READ before you post... Keep repeating that yourself.... IDIOT!

Re:This again?

[operagost]

Where's my flying car?

At least we do have handheld video phones now (sort of).

Re:Crazy size of the IPv6 address space...

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh gawd yes. A geeky chick. It's a slashdot wet dream cum true!

Do some more math for us. You know how that turns us on!

Re:They should really swap to IPV6 then..

[Fishstick]

Banky: Alright, now see this? This is a four-way road, OK? And dead in the center is a crisp, new, hundred dollar bill. Now, at the end of each of these streets are four people, OK? Are you following?

Holden: Yeah.

Banky: Good. Over here, we have a male-affectionate, easy to get along with, non-political agenda lesbian. Down here, we have a man-hating, angry as fuck, agenda of rage, bitter dyke. Over here, we got Santa Claus, and up here the Easter Bunny. Which one is going to get to the hundred dollar bill first?

Holden: What is this supposed to prove?

Banky: No, I'm serious. This is a serious exercise. It's like an SAT question. Which one is going to get to the hundred dollar bill first? The male-friendly lesbian, the man-hating dyke, Santa Claus, or the Easter bunny?

Holden: The man-hating dyke.

Banky: Good. Why?

Holden: I don't know.

Banky: Because the other three are figments of your fucking imagination!

Are you sure?

[dark-br]

IPv6 will not run out of addresses

Hum... till ppl start assigning one ip address per fridge, cooker, toaster, air cond., etc...

My fridge will have one for each drawer so i can have a shell script to check for lack of booze and order more online :)

Re:"Perhaps" IPV6 will solve the problem?

[Erisian Pope]

I live in the 3rd dimension, and have 2 families living directly below me. Also keep in mind that the population of humans is growing pretty fast...so it may be possible to run out of IPv6 addresses too.

Wow! You must live on a pretty big planet. The one I'm on couldn't possibly support enough people to run out of IPv6 addresses.

I did a little math. Turns out that with 2^128 addresses, 1000 addresses per person, it'd take 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211 people to use them all. Averaging that these people way around 90kg (180 lbs), they come to a mass of 3.0625e37 kg. For some comparison, the earth's mass is 5.972e24 kg, our sun is 1.989e30 kg. Thats more mass than is in my whole galaxy!

Another sign of rock and roll excesses

[c13v3rm0nk3y]

Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses

What the hell is a prog-rock super-band [asiaworld.org] from the 80's doing with 22 million IP addresses?

Do they give them away to groupies with the backstage passes? Did entire blocks come free with the purchase of an lp? Were they traded for drugs and amps that go up to "11"?

This kind of rock n' roll excess is just so sad.

Re:IPv6? Yes because NAT is too limited

[Skapare]

If your company thinks NAT is too limited, then it should have gotten, or be getting, its own IPv6 assignment. Cite the address. If it's a case of your management not understanding the problem and the solution, give me your CEO's home phone number and I'll given him a call at 3AM and whisper into his ear "IPv6 ... IPv6 ... you want IPv6 ... IPv6 will make your network better, faster, cheaper ... IPv6 ... do IPv6 now".

Re:Crazy size of the IPv6 address space...

[apachetoolbox]

are you married? :)

Re:As I see it...

[maxpublic]

I ignore AC's. Use your real name.

Your parents must've had a sick sense of humor. If your real name is 'dacarr', is your brother's name 'daplane! daplane!'?

Max

Re:Actually

[Anonymous Coward]

Why not go to the root of the problem, the spam gangs who are responsible for 90% of the spam on the net?
Uh wait, that's in the US...

Re:Korea wasteful of IP addresses

[Anonymous Coward]

...blocks of 16777216 to U.S. colleges (MIT)...

Re:Corporations are at fault?

[Anonymous Coward]

Every fraternity has their own class B? That seems odd. If I recall, that's what my entire college runs on (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). And my fraternity doesn't get any of it. We have 30 guys running through a single linksys router hooked up to a cable modem, and we're thankful for that. We also have to walk to class uphill both ways, in the snow.

Connection to your toaster is not optized!

[SpaceForRent]

Just great!
Does that mean that we will see all these "connection to your toaster is not optimized" pop-up messages?

Slashdot asleep at the wheel again....

[/Idiot\]

My fav bit... "Perhaps IPv6 will solve the problem."

Re:"Perhaps" IPV6 will solve the problem?

[NotQuiteReal]

Put your money where your mouth is. I, too say we will NEVER run out of IPV6 addresses, and to prove it I will bet you $US1,000,000.00 straight, up.

All I as is that you send me 10% now to hold the bet. I will pay off 1,100,000.00 if I lose the bet.