Topic: China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days

[sam]

China is running out of IP addresses unless it makes the switch to IPv6. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, under the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no proper measures are taken by then, new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet. Li Kai, director in charge of the IP business for CNNIC's international department, says that if a netizen wants to get access to the Internet, an IP address will be necessary to analyze the domain name and view the pages. At present, most of the networks in China use IPv4 addresses. As a basic resource for the Internet, the IPv4 addresses are limited and 80% of the final allocation IP addresses have been used."

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/24/1254235&from=rss

[Simon]

At least it might stop some of the bloody spammers!   

[Clive]

Mine seen to come mainly from Russia these days.   

[Rik]

Or Israel...