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Submission + - Asia Has Officially Run Out of IPv4 Addresses (apnic.net)

Submitted by mindbuilder
mindbuilder writes: The Asia Pacific and Australia region has officially run out of Internet protocol version 4 addresses today. Actually they have a few left but they've begun their "final eight policy", so addresses will only be dolled out in tiny quantities over the next several years. Even regions with addresses still available will be effected by this because making contact to computers in the APNIC region will get harder as more APNIC users have to start sharing addresses from behind NAT. If you or your family are in the market for a wireless router or other network gear, be sure to look for IPv6 compatibility.

Submission + - Asia runs out of internet addresses next month (potaroo.net)

Submitted by mindbuilder
mindbuilder writes: At the rate the Asia pacific region has been consuming IPv4 internet address this year, it is expected that they will run out before the end of April, and perhaps closer to the beginning of April. Even if your region will still have addresses available, the sharing of addresses using NAT that will be necessary in the APNIC region will cause communications problems for users in every other region trying to contact APNIC users. Therefore it would be best if users in every region start moving to IPv6 as soon as possible.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 569

by mindbuilder (#23962469) Attached to: The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding

>500 years from now, just think how out of touch the elderly will be!

People will learn to keep themselves updated better.

What is this strange thing that makes people want to deny the likelihood of curing aging within the next few decades? I saw a survey of doctors that reported that the doctors thought that the average life expectancy a hundred years from now would be only about a hundred years. That means those doctors thought aging wouldn't be cured for more than 200 years! What on earth possesses people to think that progress will be so slow?

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