It's official. Today (Thr 3 Feb 2010), IANA delegated the last free IPv4 address blocks to the Regional Internet Registries. There are no free blocks left.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/river-of-ipv4-addresses-officially-runs-dry.ars It will doubtless take a little time for those blocks to trickle down to actual network operators. And, of course, just because address space is assigned doesn't mean it's used; some "idle" blocks may be released or even sold. But any which way you slice it, the writing on the wall is clear: Getting public IPv4 addresses is going to become increasingly difficult. Welcome to IPv6. Hope you brought your helmet. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
