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Internet will run out of IP addresses by 2010, warns Vint Cerf
Jessica Salter
London Telegraph
Thursday, Sept 25, 2008
The “father of the internet” has warned that the web is running out of addresses and users need to act now to change to a new system.
Vint Cerf, the man who helped invent the system and one of the world’s leading computer scientists, said that the web does not have enough unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other.
He said that when the internet protocol (IP) addresses do run out, the connectivity of the internet will be damaged and some computers will not be able to go online.
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“This is like the internet running out of telephone numbers and with no new numbers, you can’t have more subscribers,” he said
Preparations had to be made now, he said, to switch addresses to a new system.
When the internet was founded in 1977 there were 4.2 billion addresses available under the internet protocol version four (IPv4) system.
Each of the IPv4 addresses has a series of 32 binary numbers, but with the rapid expansion of broadband across the world, it is estimated that these addresses will run out by 2010.
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September 25th, 2008 at 5:25 am
It is funny how we have not ran out of telephone numbers that I know of. But we are running out of IP addresses! I admitt that I do not know much about IP’s it just seems odd we only have numbers for phones but we have letters and numbers for IP’s!!
September 25th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Bring on the Government controlled and highly flawed IPv6.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Old news here. They’ve been saying this for years. This is NOT today’s news, it’s yesterdays. IPv6 is already in implementation, comes standard with windows vista, ready out of the box, it’s the rest of the net that needs the upgrade, and that IS happening a little bit at a time.
Remember the words on the front of the book: DON’T PANIC.
September 25th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Oh yeah, here it comes A NEW SYSTEM?????? ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How calculated is that!
September 25th, 2008 at 8:43 am
It’s true that the internet is running out of IP4 addresses. That isn’t a scam.
This is why IP6 was created. The questions everyone should be asking is “Does the IP6 system of addresses compromise privacy? Is it secure and private so that people can still remain anonymous and not be tracked down for voicing their opinions as is their right under the first amendment?”
September 25th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Stupid, do some research for gods sake.
IP6 has already been developed and many orgs are already strarting to receive ip6.
IP6 works on the hardware level the same as ip4 except that it has 128 bit instead of 32 bits of addressing. That has an exponential effect so that every device on earth can receive a unique IP address.
However that does not mean every device will have a Unique IP address there is a meriad of reasons to still use network address translation for private networks.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:50 am
“It is funny how we have not ran out of telephone numbers that I know of. But we are running out of IP addresses! I admitt that I do not know much about IP’s it just seems odd we only have numbers for phones but we have letters and numbers for IP’s!”
Your thinking of domain names. IPs are binary numbers often represented in decimal or hexadecimal form.
The reason for the shortage is not just the computer. Every router that makes up the internet gets a number.
Also adresses are handed out in classes, so a large company has to purchase a subnet, it has to use a class A subnet, class A subnet hosts 8388606 even if you only have 10,000. In another words it forces inefficient packaging.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am
oh my, it sounds like an end of the world scenerio !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! do something !!!!!!! help !!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm_xX1Ur43I
September 25th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Who else wants to apply for the title of “Father of the Internet”?
1. Tim Berners Lee
2. Vint Cerf
3. Al “Climate Con” Gore
4. An unknown DARPA egghead
September 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
As for number three:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he “invented” the Internet.
Status: False.
September 25th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
If IANA would force corporations, governments, and ISP’s (like comcast) to pop their heads out of their assess and move to private addressing schemes, there wouldn’t be near the shortage of IP’s that we have now.
The only reason IPv6 is being pushed so hard at this time is for Nano-bot and RFID. Remember the Mark of the Beast???
Welcome to your New World Order!
September 25th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
“Who else wants to apply for the title of “Father of the Internet”?”
The internet evolved it was not created.
The internet is a combination of a tons of standards and protocols developed by various organizations.
no one “invented it”
September 25th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
OK this is retarded.
1. The interconnection of computers on a network was CREATED not evolved, by physics researchers transferring info about particle colliders.
2. We already have ways of dealing with IP shortages it is called NAT masquerading, where multiple systems in a network share an IP address, to put it into lay terms.
3. IPv6 can and would be used to invade privacy by ISP’s and government b/c what IPv6 will implement is unique IP addresses to every device connected to the internet to be used for safety and protection against attacks and could easily traced back to the individual b/c it uses 128bit addresses which means there will be billions of addresses.
4. The reason we are having this shortage is b/c every electronic device made today is internet capable, and bad network configurations. Also, with this new protocol set into action it will be the perfect tool for globalization b/c they plan to connect everything to the net including traffic signals to home appliances. This would make everything more dangerous by making it more complicated. Just by a few keystrokes an attacker or government official could disrupt the communication of every aspect of your future life.
Don’t fix what ain’t broke!!
September 26th, 2008 at 12:10 am
1. “CREATED not evolved, by physics researchers transferring info about particle colliders.”
Do you really wan’t to argue that point? Just take at the list of ports and tell me all those were “created” for transfering info about particle excelerators. Then take a look at the history of ports themselves. Then take a look at the history of switched versus unswitched networks. You are wrong on nearly every level.
Each component was created but the hole evolved. One part was upgraded then another what didn’t work well withered away. No one sat down and said, hmm I have a computer, now if only I had a switch/router/tx line/isdn line/secure and secure protocols/broadcast and addressed protocols/applications to interpret packet/ oh what a great idea it should be based on packets………
2. NAT limits end to end connectivity for many applications. Therefore most orgs have addresses for uninteruptable web service, static vpn configurations and so on.
3,4. How is NAT any different. It is just as tracable. If you want privacy your best bet is getting involved in onion routing. And if you have a website, guess what, it is “drum roll please” public!.
I argue that IP6 will be a boost to free speech as each person will be able to have a host address to set up a web site for less price.
And IP6 does not rule out NAT there are many reasons to use NAT even if you have all the public IP addresses you want.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:35 am
@linuxluber Says:
September 26th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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Excellent points all the way around.
And, what many don’t know is that with the proper software, one’s MAC address ~and~ IP address may be manipulated to spoof ~any~ just address.
Further, if one goes entirely wireless and uses an amplifier and a good hi-gain directional antenna, that aspect becomes so fluid as to make locating the end user just about impossible — especially if there are SEVERAL wireless AP’s in operation in the area that one operates.
So, ‘let them’ go IPv6. If I want to hide, it is so bloody easy to do that it’s hilarious!
In Star Trek — The Search for Spock, Scotty remarks: “The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop-up the drain!”
That applies in SPADES with the Internet!
September 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
By 2010 the Catholics pedophiles will be looking for a place like Mexico to hide because they will be hunted down like terrorists.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
@linuxluber makes goos points.
What Highlander said about wireless. Not only can you use wireless like that but you can use “bonding” which is a way of connecting separate adapters like wireless adapters together so it lets your laptop use many different AP at the same time.
With IP6 you can still do NAT just like withIP4 now.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
this is blatantly untrue, ipv4 was replaced by ipv6 years ago. yes ipv4 will run out of addresses soon, but ipv6 is there to take over. there may be a few problems for some old servers but the rest is pure propaganda. I am beginning to doubt prisonplanet and infowars, are they gatekeepers like chomsky?
September 27th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Likely they will go towards a proxied internet. Well, there are no technical means of limiting access which wouldn’t be passable.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
To stay on topic: IPV4 is coming to a close. This isn’t a big deal, seeing as how IPV6 has already been introduced. Newer operating systems already have this implemented. Older operating systems can have patches applied easily.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I’ll ask all you American citizens, is Bush, Cheney. Rumsfeld cleverer than you ? For ***** sake,Get real…..