[members-discuss] IPV4 Addresses

There’s certainly been a lot of talk about IPv4, and it running out and has been for a very long time, and how it’s turned into a black market with people selling IP’s at ridiculous figures.  We’re all up in arms about that but to be honest, it’s up to us to correct this situation.  How do we do this?  By adopting IPv6 more widely and more quickly.  IPv6 is 20 years old this year, yet according to Google, only 10-11% of its visitors use IPv6.  This is appalling.  At my company, we’ve implemented IPv6 as a dual-stack solution.  Every new customer we add gets IPv6 whether they ask for it or not.  We also have a project to IPv6-ise all our existing customers, because I feel it’s really important to adopt IPv6 to avoid all these IPv4 complications and issues.

IPv6 is easy people, don’t be afraid of it.  Put it on all your servers.  Make your websites support it.  We, as network administrators, have a responsibility to the world to lead by example and utilize IPv6 to its fullest.  It’s not going to resolve the IPv4 issues that we have today, but the more we do, the closer we get ourselves to a final solution – no more IPv4.

Nowadays, when I talk to customers, or even other technical people, I refer to IP – and legacy IP.  We all need to have the same mind-set.

Best Regards
[Netscenario]

Lester Clayton

Technical Manager

Netscenario AS



Fridtjof Nansens Gate 19C

3722 Skien

Norway

Mobile: +47 35 12 29 68

E-mail: lester at netscenario.no<mailto://lester@netscenario.no>

www.netscenario.no<http://www.netscenario.no/>






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