China is running out of IP addresses

By The Inquirer
10:54 Sep 25, 2008 | 10 Comments
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Unless it makes the switch to IPv6

CHINA'S TEEMING MILLIONS rushing to get online will exhaust its available network addresses by 2011, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).

CNNIC projects that the country will run out of available IPv4 addresses within about 830 days at the current rate of new Internet connectivity demand.

Li Kai, CNNIC international director of IP business, said that further expansion of China's network operators will become impossible once all assigned blocks of IPv4 addresses are allocated to end-users.

Li said that IPv6 networking provides unrestricted IP addressing space, but IPv6 networks have so far been installed only at educational institutions in China. Transitioning Chinese Internet infrastructure to IPv6 networks can alleviate the looming addressing shortage, but that will require China's Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to spend a lot of time and money.

CNNIC is hosting seminars with the country's ISPs urging them to apply soon for needed IP addressing allocations and begin preparations for the future transition to IPv6 networking.

Link: China Tech News

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10 Comments

emccat Sep 25, 2008 11:05 AM	AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA thats so stupid becuase its there owin fault for having so many people HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ill laugh so much when this happens .
bolt_krank Sep 25, 2008 11:41 AM	Maybe it's just the government's excuse. "Don't use the internet !!!"
G-relk Sep 25, 2008 12:39 PM	china just lost the interwebz for that
Sir Johnsee Sep 25, 2008 5:42 PM	The rest of us won't be that far behind...
emccat Sep 25, 2008 6:22 PM	hahahahahah i laugh at the res of us who DON'T have IP addresses LOL AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. i found out if you tell people in high school that if you type google into google it breaks the internet and they belive you LOL
Athiril Sep 25, 2008 10:10 PM	No doubt dodgy chinese operators will start using already assigned IP addresses from other countries, so there will be weird conflicts... The whole country could run internally on a private IPv6 network, and be routed over IPv4 to the rest of the world.. kinda like Internet Connection Sharing... or a broadband router.
maxamatosis Sep 26, 2008 12:05 AM	Nice one moron. How can it be someone's fault for having too many people? They've already limited allowed children, what else can they do? Oh I'm sorry, maybe they should find a big desert country and kill all the black people on it. OH WAIT the British already beat them to the genocide punch here in Australia, guess there's no where left. Stupid school holidays.
^Faldo^ Sep 26, 2008 12:33 PM	My sophisticated article image history humour is lost on the schoolkids. As is everything else, apparently.
colganaitor Sep 27, 2008 7:08 PM	lol. How did I know someone would say they`re too many Chinese?
wheelz Oct 1, 2008 10:48 PM	Touche' Faldo.

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