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Author Topic: IPv6 : The internet could face years of instability  (Read 2097 times)

Zoe

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IPv6 : The internet could face years of instability
« on: November 11, 2010, 05:39:14 PM »

Hi  :)


Rather Worrying Read : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11736394  :(

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Re: IPv6 : The internet could face years of instability
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2010, 08:24:26 PM »
I remember way back when there was a big scare that IP addresses were going to run out by about 2002, and thats why they were bringing in IPv6.  Im pretty sure there was another scare earlier than that which iirc is why CIDR was brought into use.

As said in the report, IPv6 implementation is complicated, and this has deterred many from using it :/

It does indeed look like this time, we really are running out of IP addresses...

IPv4 Address Report
Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 11-Mar-2011
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Re: IPv6 : The internet could face years of instability
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2010, 01:10:56 PM »
Hi kitz  :)


Although I haven't experienced this personally.
I have already seen evidence of the problems that not enough IP address to go around can cause  :(
Basically...
Few months ago loads of people started flooding the Talk Talk forum, complaining that they could no longer use certain websites such as the BBC.
Turned out that Talk Talk short of IP addresses, had realised a new set of IP addresses into the IP Pool.
Problem Was... The new IP addresses started with a single number 2.
And many websites simply wouldn't except them  :no:

Customers and Websites blamed Talk Talk.
And...
Talk Talk blamed the Websites for not updating their Boglin list ( Or... Something Like That! )
Think Boglin might be the Wrong Word :blush:

Anyway...
The new low IP addresses caused so much Trouble!
Talk Talk  was eventually forced to recall them from the IP Pool.


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Re: IPv6 : The internet could face years of instability
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2010, 10:44:03 AM »
I'm biassed of course, but what a shame the ISO equivalent of IP, known as ISO 8473 Connectionless Networking Protocol (CLNP) never got adopted for the global internet as it had variable length addresses from its conception, way back in the 1970s/80s.  There was even a proposal from IEEE (among others I think)  in the early1990s, to have CLNP shoe-horned into the TCP stack, known as TUBA (TCP Using Bigger Addresses), but it never really got off the ground.

I'm not sure what the attraction of 32 bit addressing as per IP was, except that it made for easy coding as it fitted neatly into an integer on most architectures, thus avoiding the need for a string copy every time it was assigned!





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