RIPE NCC Out of IPv4

[USHost247]

The RIPE NCC has run out of IPv4 Addresses

Today, at 15:35 (UTC+1) on 25 November 2019, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses.

www.ripe.net

Today, at 15:35 (UTC+1) on 25 November 2019, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses.

We knew this day was long coming, and it has now arrived.

 

[KnownSyntax]

Wasn't the public pool completely taken a few years ago? I remember the mad rush to make everything IPv6 compatible since it was going to break things for those websites that could not handle the new addresses. Still, to this day, many ISPs don't support it, customer facing or if they do, they have a setting locked/unchecked to provide the customer with a IPv6 address by default.

I'm sure it'll take another decade if not longer before there isn't such a thing as IPv4 (unless it is server to server specific) in general.

 

[Revolved101]

Does this mean IPV4 is no longer a thing and things are going towards IPV6 new computers etc?

 

[KnownSyntax]

Does this mean IPV4 is no longer a thing and things are going towards IPV6 new computers etc?

No, IPv4 will still be around. All it means is that ISPs and others will recycle IPv4 addresses they assign out until someone gets tired of having all blacklisted IPv4 addresses, and then they shift towards IPv6 only.