Posts Tagged ‘IPv4’

Wow, that was quick! Previously, I wrote about how IANA had just allocated the last block of IPv4 address space to the regional Internet registries (RIRs). At that time, APNIC had just requested two /8 blocks, which brought the remaining number of /8 blocks down to five. By mutual agreement of the RIRs, that triggered…

APNIC just announced that IANA has allocated to APNIC the last two allocatable /8 IPv4 address blocks. There are five remaining /8 blocks left, but looks like various RIRs have agreed that when this point is reached, each of the five RIRs is automatically allocated one of the remaining five /8 blocks. Thus, we're done.…

A couple weeks ago, I posted about the impending IPv4 address exhaustion problem. Well, the day is rapidly approaching. The IPv4 address exhaustion counter at potaroo.net is now showing 7 days until "X-day." This page is a great one if you want the details behind the IPv4 address allocation system and what X-day really implies…

The folks over at Hurricane Electric created a nifty little (free) application for my Android phone called "Bye Bye v4." It's a simple count-down clock as is popular for any major predictable event in the future (countdown to the next election, countdown to the Olympics, countdown to the World Cup, etc.). This time, however, it's…

Cloud computing and networking are inextricably linked. Without high speed wide-area networks, public cloud computing would not be possible. The folks at Sun Microsystems were never more right than today: the network really is the computer when it comes to cloud computing. But while cloud computing is enabled by high-speed networks, cloud computing will also…