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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:39:35PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote |
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> > Don't waste time and effort on it. Put your |
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> > effort into pounding away on a simple issue that people do understand... |
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> > we're running out of IP addresses. |
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> We have run out of unallocated ones, there are still loads of unused |
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> ones... and even some being released. |
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And they'll run out rather quickly at the rate they're being assigned. |
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There are approximately 3.7 billion usable IPV4 addresses. Soon, that |
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will be one for every 2 people on this planet. And don't forget the |
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people who have an account at home, a smartphone with web access, and an |
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internet-connected desktop at work. Conservation of IP addresses will |
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buy us a couple more years, but that's it. |
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> and even more due to global NAT... |
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In another message you said... |
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> ...and may I state again also that I have externally facing servers |
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> and games machines behind NAT. |
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Yes, that works if *YOU* have at least 1 public IP address and *YOU* |
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control port-forwarding. But it won't work behind carrier-level NAT. |
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> It is true eventually it will be an absolute problem but hopefully by |
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> then we will have a cleaner ipv7. |
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It won't happen. It's too late to start from scratch, and the IPV6 |
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rollout has already begun. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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