OMG IT'S Y2K2!!!
And yeah i think they will use IPv6 but keep the 1Pv4 aswell.
Like all the new servers etc. will run on IPv6
And yeah i think they will use IPv6 but keep the 1Pv4 aswell.
Like all the new servers etc. will run on IPv6
It said in the article IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4. If we switch to IPv6, everyone will have to in one go.FireGrey said:OMG IT'S Y2K2!!!
And yeah i think they will use IPv6 but keep the 1Pv4 aswell.
Like all the new servers etc. will run on IPv6
You didn't say anything about your education in your original post, so it sounded like you were talking about the internet in general.tj_cool said:What does that have to do with my education?
I just said we learned about it in class this year
No they don't. You can switch to IPv6 now if you want. Google runs an IPv6 version of itself, etc etc.BobTheJoeBob said:It said in the article IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4. If we switch to IPv6, everyone will have to in one go.FireGrey said:OMG IT'S Y2K2!!!
And yeah i think they will use IPv6 but keep the 1Pv4 aswell.
Like all the new servers etc. will run on IPv6
Yeah, after looking at it again, I could've probably made that a bit clearer...Richy Freeway said:You didn't say anything about your education in your original post, so it sounded like you were talking about the internet in general.tj_cool said:What does that have to do with my education?
I just said we learned about it in class this year
3xProtoKun7 said:If it was this year, then I knew there would be a Y2.1K!
And it's amusing that this is posted by a user called "Dead End".
EDIT: And from the source, there's a photo of someone who's apparently a scientist from APNIC...
Dead End said:We Might End Up Sharing An IP With Other People And That Will Cause Programs To Not Work Properly, You May Get Banned From Sites Because Someone Else Couldn't Obey Rules.
I was wondering about exactly this too.FAST6191 said:@ macgeek417 your ISP probably uses dynamic IP addresses (as opposed to static), you have to be careful in this situation as they can also use network address translation (NAT) which does use the same IP (it is how you can have many computers behind a single router) which ISPs outside of Asia tend not to do on a big scale (there are examples but they are not so common/the practice is not as prevalent) but to the basic webserver looks very similar. NAT by and large works well enough but when people speak of programs not working this is usually it (certain protocols do not take to having their ports fiddled with).
In other news I have heard this story (IPv4 address exhaustion) once every 7 or so months for the last 5 years if not longer.
IPv6...... I am not as excited/optimistic as some. Far too many embedded devices that can/will not be seen to and the router level translation stuff (IPv6 facing the world, IPv4 back behind your router) have always seemed a bit flaky to me.