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Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 16:23:17 -0400
On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:28:25 -0400, Charles Wyble <charles () thewybles com> wrote:
Utility companies utilize Zigbee pretty extensively. So that's millions and millions of addresses right there.
But does the entire planet need to talk to those critters? No. Nor should they even be able to.
Those little gadgets can very happily live within a link-local only network, or isolated private network.
I know the subject of "nat" in IPv6 will have people chasing me with pitchforks, but there are a lot of things in the world that don't need to be accessable by the entire world and should be (must be) protected from even accidentally being exposed to the Evil Internet(tm). Everyone will chime in with "firewall them", but the risk exists as long as they have global addresses. Having to break into a machine in order to get at the internal network (ala today's NAT) makes the network much safer -- not "safe", but safer than directly naked on the internet.
(If you want to do numbers... the utility company could hang 2billion zigbee's on every human on Earth and still not fill *one* /64. [global pop ~ 6.77 billion])
Current thread:
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses, (continued)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mans Nilsson (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Tony Finch (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Karl Auer (May 06)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 06)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 06)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Charles Wyble (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Stephen Sprunk (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Charles Wyble (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Florian Weimer (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Randy Bush (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Karl Auer (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mark Smith (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mohacsi Janos (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Joe Maimon (May 05)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Seth Mattinen (May 04)