Wednesday, February 2, 2011

HR Department's perspective Vs a Programmer's perspective.

IPv4 addresses finally exhausted ..


The central pool of IPv4 addresses officially ran dry on Tuesday the 1st of Feb 2011, after the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last remaining blocks of address space.
APNIC, which provides internet addressing services to the Asia Pacific region, received two /8s (33 million addresses) on Tuesday in a move that triggered the immediate distribution of the last five /8s to Regional Internet Registries. ISPs and businesses are rapidly burning through any IPv4 addresses APNIC makes available, so organisations in the region are expected to be among the first to feel the effects of IPv4 exhaustion.
Finally the its the time to adapt IPv6. IPv6 offers a vastly expanded address space but even though it's been around for a decade it remains unsupported on many networks. That needs to change or else the interweb will become fragmented in the 21st century equivalent of a canals and railways transport system.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Getting it started..

Well, let me start with stating a fact that i am not much of a writer. Neither do i read a lot, but i savor collecting knowledge from all the domains. I created this blog to share things which i find intriguing, and they may span from Astronomy to popping bubble wrap... I hope you got my perspective :)