Well, maybe not the end of the Internet, but the end of the IP Address space, as we know it, is near. You know, IP addresses are the 4 blocks of number separated by periods, i.e. 10.0.0.1; well, there are only 4 billion of them. Sometime next year, 2012, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) will have no more IP addresses to give to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). About a year after that, the RIRs will have no more to give out to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), such as Cox Communication and Go Daddy.
IPv6
How many people already have IPv6 connectivity?
We need to give a lot of thanks to Eric Vyncke for this fine innovation…. Put a 1-pixel image on your web site that lives on an IPv4/IPv6 dual stack host. This 1-pixel image is actually a PHP script that uses a special trick to figure out if the client has IPv6, whether it’s … Read moreHow many people already have IPv6 connectivity?