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Breaking News Internet Nearly Put of IP Adresses
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It's the end of the web as we know it.
Every Internet-connected computer, smartphone, car, gadget and gizmo is assigned a four-digit IP address that lets it communicate with the net, thanks to a system known as IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). And the flood of new gadgets means we're running out of those addresses.
"That distribution system is coming to a close," said Geoff Hutson, the chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Center. In the coming few days and weeks -- no longer -- the central pool is going to run out.
Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones.
But IPv6 isn't backwards-compatible with IPv4, meaning that it's not able to read most content that operates on an IPv4 system. At best, the user experience will be clunky and slow. At worst, instead of a webpage, all users will be able to view is a blank page.
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Every Internet-connected computer, smartphone, car, gadget and gizmo is assigned a four-digit IP address that lets it communicate with the net, thanks to a system known as IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). And the flood of new gadgets means we're running out of those addresses.
"That distribution system is coming to a close," said Geoff Hutson, the chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Center. In the coming few days and weeks -- no longer -- the central pool is going to run out.
Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones.
But IPv6 isn't backwards-compatible with IPv4, meaning that it's not able to read most content that operates on an IPv4 system. At best, the user experience will be clunky and slow. At worst, instead of a webpage, all users will be able to view is a blank page.
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So this means no more internet, cell phones or live?
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Well Yes if they cant find another source but they might start selling Public IPs so mulitple people can connect to one IP
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well why dont they just change it to like 10 characters
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They cant make it run 10 letter ips because the internet is IPV4 which means it reads IPs in 32 bit address,But they do have IPv6 which reads 128-bit address but its slow and users will be lucky if they can load a page
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That sucks, But somebody will come up with something and become a millionaire from it
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Ya another thing is if people start buying ipv4 adresses they can probably sell thatm at high prices when they run out
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Yea someone alway comes up with a solution...
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they would just add one or two more numbers at the end of ip's
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they will just start adding letters and additional numbers
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