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Julian Hall wrote: > 'In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks of net > addresses to give out, estimates suggest. Predictions name 9 September > 2011 as the date on which the last of those tranches is released for net > firms and others to use' > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10105978.stm Afraid "IPv4 address exhaustion" is up there with "the rapture" and "the return of the messiah" as long expected. The only difference being we know IPv4 addresses exist. Sure there are issues, but I believe over 10% of allocatable "/8"'s have yet to be allocated. Last estimate I saw estimated 17% of those allocated are no longer in use. Mitigation by reclaiming over generous early allocations (starting with those to defunct companies) is significantly easier than wide spread IPv6 deployment. On the other hand a lot of the systems are IPv6 ready, so switching shouldn't be that painful. The main limitation is I suspect system and network administrator clue, I've managed to avoid learning anything useful about IPv6 except how to disable it. There appear to be substantially more IPv6 enabled clients than web servers. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html