Internet Chiefs Create More Than 340 Undecillion IP Addresses

Ruu_Old

A story some people might be interested from here.

People who are responsible for monitoring Internet activity on a global scale have apparently been concerned that the availability of Internet addresses is becoming increasingly scarce. In response, the Internet chiefs have created a few more.

Actually, it's more than a few- more than 340 undecillion more. Visualized, the number is absurdly large, seen as 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
In other words, the size capability of the web has been seriously augmented.

The action was taken due to technical forecasts that state that a great deal more users from developing nations will soon be online, and that our current space capability would not be sufficient to handle the load. Now, according to them, it will.

from another related article here.

50 billion the number of e-mails dispatched every day wordwide; in 2001 the traffic was less than 12 billion

88 per cent of e-mails are junk including about 1 per cent which are virus-infected

32 The average number of e-mail messages received per person per day. This is rising by 84 per cent each year

440 million the number of electronic mailboxes in use, including 170 million corporate ones, growing by 32 per cent per year

1,035 million the total number of mobile phone text messages sent each month in Britain

37 The average number of texts a user sends per month compared with 21 in 2001 1 million the number of children aged under 10 in Britain — one in three — who own a phone

8 The average age at which a child gets a mobile phone in Britain

CuLT

Holy Internet Batman!

neacy69

now how'd they do that IPv6?

tba

Yeah, but Im still a bit fuzzy on what IPv6 actually does,

Do we have that 256 in a slot ie: 765.766.168.0
do we increase the slots ie: 192.168.10.19.78.56
or do we change the base of the numbers ie: e34.f65.33a.120

challengemaster

woah...

28064212

The first article seems kind of redundant, it's just a rephrasing of the Time's article. Somewhat old news, IPv6 has been around for more than ten years

tba

28064212

tba wrote:

Yeah, but Im still a bit fuzzy on what IPv6 actually does,

Do we have that 256 in a slot ie: 765.766.168.0
do we increase the slots ie: 192.168.10.19.78.56
or do we change the base of the numbers ie: e34.f65.33a.120

Slots and base e.g.
2001:1234:5678:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF:FFFF
is an example address

tba

there goes me ever remembering an IP address again

Stephen

"internet chiefs"... right.

IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long, and expressed in hexadecimal.

IPv6 is getting increasingly popular in places like China where they have huge population and tiny allocation of IPv4 space. I believe DCU has some native IPv6 connectivity to HEAnet now too, and HEAnet's ftp is accessible via both IPv4 and IPv6.

Also, Windows XP's implementation of IPv6 sucks donkey balls.

Guess what my final year project was about in college?

tba

affects of drink on the human brain

astrofool

donkey balls?

MunsterCycling

The effects of drinking too many donkey balls?

Rollo Tamasi

IPv6? (mad guess, otherwise i'm going with Donkey Balls)

Stephen

Donkey balls over IPv6?

astrofool

You must have had a fat pipe

DemonOfTheFall

astrofool wrote:

You must have had a fat pipe

ROFL

good one.