IP addresses could RUN OUT withing three years, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor. Although the newer IPv6 addresses have six integers, rather than four, (allowing trillions of trillions of new addresses), the article says that the upgrade takes years for some companies.
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Did the Christian Science Monitor take this as further evidence of the impending Apocalypse?
"Although the newer IPv6 addresses have six integers, rather than four"
What the hell. Someone did not do his homework.
IPv4 means IP version 4. IPv6 means IP version 6. The version number has nothing to do with the number of bits in the address. The fact that IPv4 has four bytes (32 bits) in the address is pure coincidence. IPv6 has 32 bytes (128 bits) in the address.
IPv4 addresses (including unusable/broadcast): 4,294,967,296
IPv6 addresses: 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
Six integers? Give me a break.
Correction, IPv6 has 16 bytes. (128/8 = 16)
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