Internet Addresses
Posted by Joeb on October 30, 2007
I was reading an article on the BBC News website earlier, about how Internet addresses (i.e. the IP address behind the URL) are estimated to run out in 2010/2011 if we carry on using IPv4.
It then goes on to state that we need to use IPv6 (an obvious really, with support now built into Vista as well). And apparently…IPv6 has been ready to roll out for the past 10 years…so why hasn’t it been rolled out?!?!?! That’s what I want to know.
It makes no sense to me. And for those who’ve just read that and have no idea what it means, I can’t remember either, but basically IPv6 allows us to have more websites.
