The imminent stable-version apocalypse

Posted Feb 7, 2021 1:29 UTC (Sun) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: The imminent stable-version apocalypse by amarao
Parent article: The imminent stable-version apocalypse

One supposes we might move to IPv6, which fixes this problem once and for all. But IPv6 was standardized (in RFC 1883) a mere 25 years ago, so *obviously* it must not be mature enough.

The imminent stable-version apocalypse

Posted Feb 8, 2021 10:23 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

It doesn't matter when IPv6 was developed. Only matters when IPv4 pool was exhausted. That happened about one year ago.

The fact that anyone started pushing IPv6 before that moment is a miracle in itself.

This 15-years old article explains that phenomenon well… and it looks as if Linux kernel follows the same trajectory: people are only fixing things when they break. Not before.

The imminent stable-version apocalypse

Posted Feb 8, 2021 12:11 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

This certainly wasn't the first time we were about to run out of IPv4 addresses (It also mentions that time in 2012 as well). But previously in the 1990s IPv4 address blocks were in need. So IPv6 was invented. But so was subnetting.