30 Jan
2011
30 Jan
'11
11:50 a.m.
Hello,
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 08:41:26PM +0000, Daniel Case wrote:
While I know that IPocalypse as the news hype is
calling it, is a little bit
overkill. It makes me wonder what will happen to ISP's such as Bitfolk when
the IPv4's do run out?
At the moment you're numbered out of 212.13.194.0/23 (512 IPs) - PA
space assigned to BitFolk by our transit provider. That's nearly
exhausted.
In 2010 we became a RIPE Local Internet Registry and got
85.119.80.0/21 (2048 IPs) which I have been slowly renumbering
infrastructure into, and will soon announce a renumbering for
customers.
This should last us quite a while, but we still can't afford to give
them out without technical justification. As time goes on I would
expect to have to start making a monthly recurring charge for IPv4
addresses after the first.
I know a lot of home users are not up to the IPv6
standard yet (Sky
Broadband are terrible) so will giving users a V6 address only mean that
people still on v4 can't get to them?
Pretty much. Anything important will have to be available on IPv4
for some time to come, but it will be harder (more expensive) to
obtain globally routable IPv4 addresses.
Cheers,
Andy
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