World IPv6 Day: June 8. Internet Is Almost Full.
Before you decide that this news is irrelevant and go away, let us tell you that if you should care about IPv6. Here's why -
When you access CrazyEngineers, you simply type www.CrazyEngineers.com which is very easy to remember address. However, the machines translate it to a complicated number like 74.123.567.23 (IP address) to identify the site uniquely. You can figure out that this number has limitations of roughly about 4 billion addresses. With the explosion of Internet, we're running out of total number of addresses. According to rough estimate, we are likely to cross the limit somewhere in mid-February 2011. In short, the Internet is now close to being 'full'. The solution is IPv6.
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Typical IPv6 Address
IPv6 is "Internet Protocol Version 6". The major difference between IPv6 and IPv4 is the difference of bits. IPv6 uses 128 bits while IPv4 uses only 32. A typical IPv6 address will look like: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. That is the IPv6 system is capable of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses. Switching to IPv6 is the long term solution however it needs lot of infrastructure upgrades from the network providers and we do not have enough time to do that. The short-term solution is "Kludges".
The Kludges: The kludges include efficient use of IPv4 addresses using a technique called NAT (Network Address Translation). NAT only provides partial mitigation of IPv4 addresses and also increase the costs. It's therefore only a short term solution. When we run out of IPv4 addresses the users won't see anything unusual, however it'll affect larger sites like Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Our network providers will have to upgrade their infrastructures.
Test Your ISP's IPv6 Readiness:
In case you want to test the IPv6readiness of your network provider, you can head over to Test your IPv6.. The site will perform several tests without you having to do anything (apart from visiting that site) and tell you detailed information about your ISP's IPv6 capabilities.
The IPv6 Day: June 8:
On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organizations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour "test drive". If you are a website owner or a network provider, you can participate in IPv6 Day. Detailed information is available on #-Link-Snipped-#.
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Dilbert: Internet Is Full
When you access CrazyEngineers, you simply type www.CrazyEngineers.com which is very easy to remember address. However, the machines translate it to a complicated number like 74.123.567.23 (IP address) to identify the site uniquely. You can figure out that this number has limitations of roughly about 4 billion addresses. With the explosion of Internet, we're running out of total number of addresses. According to rough estimate, we are likely to cross the limit somewhere in mid-February 2011. In short, the Internet is now close to being 'full'. The solution is IPv6.
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Typical IPv6 Address
IPv6 is "Internet Protocol Version 6". The major difference between IPv6 and IPv4 is the difference of bits. IPv6 uses 128 bits while IPv4 uses only 32. A typical IPv6 address will look like: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. That is the IPv6 system is capable of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses. Switching to IPv6 is the long term solution however it needs lot of infrastructure upgrades from the network providers and we do not have enough time to do that. The short-term solution is "Kludges".
The Kludges: The kludges include efficient use of IPv4 addresses using a technique called NAT (Network Address Translation). NAT only provides partial mitigation of IPv4 addresses and also increase the costs. It's therefore only a short term solution. When we run out of IPv4 addresses the users won't see anything unusual, however it'll affect larger sites like Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Our network providers will have to upgrade their infrastructures.
Test Your ISP's IPv6 Readiness:
In case you want to test the IPv6readiness of your network provider, you can head over to Test your IPv6.. The site will perform several tests without you having to do anything (apart from visiting that site) and tell you detailed information about your ISP's IPv6 capabilities.
The IPv6 Day: June 8:
On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organizations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour "test drive". If you are a website owner or a network provider, you can participate in IPv6 Day. Detailed information is available on #-Link-Snipped-#.
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Dilbert: Internet Is Full
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