IPv4 address exhuastion beginning to show signs
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This news is a couple weeks old, but I just heard about this today while catching up on some podcasts and didn't see anyone mention it on here:
Microsoft Azure has run out of North American IPv4 addresses, so they started issuing European addresses to servers hosted the US.
Article from InternetSociety.org
One of these days I'm going to get around to setting up IPv6 on my home network just to get some experience with it. Every time I start studying the protocol I get pretty excited about it, although it will probably be years before we see it get any major adoption. I can't wait for the day ISPs start delivering IPv6.
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I read an article that said as much the other day. I know it will certainly cause issues with security monitoring services and identifying threats by location.
Speaking of ISPs, I've not had experience with any that have been super strict on handing out blocks of ip addresses 5 at a time for whatever you need. Perhaps they should tighten things up a little and really make people justify their needs.
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We've always been forced to justify our needs. It's a huge pain to get IPv4 addresses.
Monitoring services that are messed up by IP address assignment are flawed as conceptually IP addresses can be anywhere. Because of VPNs, SDNs, etc it never worked.
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I'm not sure why we haven't switched to IPv6 sooner, sure its a little more complex in terms of proper notation and subnetting, but its more secure as a whole, and offers much greater scalability.
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@RAM. FUD from users, vendors, writers, bosses and of course any software that might have to be adapted. I thought we would have already been done with the change over years ago.
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@RAM. said:
I'm not sure why we haven't switched to IPv6 sooner, sure its a little more complex in terms of proper notation and subnetting, but its more secure as a whole, and offers much greater scalability.
Because it isn't available. Almost no ISP gives you an IPv6 address. If we had good access to IPv6 for all of our home users we would switch.
We've been using IPv6 on our Pertino network for a while.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@RAM. said:
I'm not sure why we haven't switched to IPv6 sooner, sure its a little more complex in terms of proper notation and subnetting, but its more secure as a whole, and offers much greater scalability.
Because it isn't available. Almost no ISP gives you an IPv6 address. If we had good access to IPv6 for all of our home users we would switch.
We've been using IPv6 on our Pertino network for a while.
I was referring to the collective sense of the word "we" which incorporated ISP's
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@RAM. said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@RAM. said:
I'm not sure why we haven't switched to IPv6 sooner, sure its a little more complex in terms of proper notation and subnetting, but its more secure as a whole, and offers much greater scalability.
Because it isn't available. Almost no ISP gives you an IPv6 address. If we had good access to IPv6 for all of our home users we would switch.
We've been using IPv6 on our Pertino network for a while.
I was referring to the collective sense of the word "we" which incorporated ISP's
Ah ha
