On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 17:23, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
IPv6 has been around for years. Why don't some people get with the program, instead of coming up with hacks to get around the address shortage. Even with this block, there still won't be enough IPv4 addresses just for mobile devices, let alone everything else. The longer people take to move to IPv6, the worse the problem is going to get. By comparison, on IPv6, the smallest address block, /64 provides as many addresses as the entire IPv4 address space squared. I get 256 of those /64s from my ISP. Some ISPs provide 65K of them to each customer. Why are we wasting our time trying to squeeze more life out of something that should have been retired years ago? Incidentally, this block represents less than 0.4% of the IPv4 address space. Will it really make a difference?
https://www.technotification.com/2019/08/linux-kernel-allows-0-0-0-0-8-as-a-...
Your sound logic aside, 0.0.0.0 represents a significant amount of cash to those who aren't letting IPv4 drop. That economic interest will be enough to push it through against almost any resistance. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com