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IPv4 address shortage? Really?
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:43:20 -0800
I'm wondering (and that shows that I have nothing better to do at 3:30am on Monday...) how many people around here realize that the plain old IPv4 - as widely implemented and specified in standard RFCs can be easily used to connect pretty much arbitrary number (arbitrary means
2^256) of computers WITHOUT NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION. Yes, you hear
me right. And, no, it does not require any changes any in the global routing infrastructure - as implemented now, and most OS kernels (those which aren't broken-as-designed, grin) would do the trick just fine. None of that dual-stack stupidity, and, of course, no chicken-and-egg problem if the servers and gateways can be made to respect really old and well-established standards. DNS and most applications would need some (fairly trivial) updating, though, to work properly with the extended addressing; and sysadmins would need to do tweaks in their configs since some mythology-driven "security" can get in the way. But they don't have to do that en mass and all at once. The most obvious solution to the non-problem of address space shortage is the hardest to notice, ain't it? --vadim P.S. Hfr YFEE gb ebhgr orgjrra cevingr nqqerff fcnprf bire choyvpnyyl ebhgrq fcnpr, Yhxr. Guvax bs cevingr nqqerff ovgf nf n evtug-fvqr rkgrafvba gb gur sbhe-bpgrg choyvp nqqerff. P.P.S. Gb rkgraq shegure, nygreangr gjb qvfgvapg cevingr nqqerff fcnprf, nf znal gvzrf nf lbh pna svg vagb gur urnqre.
Current thread:
- IPv4 address shortage? Really? Vadim Antonov (Mar 07)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? Christopher Morrow (Mar 07)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? Mark Andrews (Mar 07)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? Scott W Brim (Mar 07)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? Warren Kumari (Mar 07)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? Jima (Mar 07)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? bmanning (Mar 07)
- RE: IPv4 address shortage? Really? George Bonser (Mar 07)
- RE: IPv4 address shortage? Really? Nathan Eisenberg (Mar 07)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 08)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? Scott Morris (Mar 08)
- Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really? bmanning (Mar 07)