(February 20, 2016 at 3:46 am)Aractus Wrote: Yes this is an "important thread"!
Tiberius, they actually don't believe in the IPv4 shortage lol. But even if they did, squandering a few IPs on people setting up servers is hardly going to make much difference - the main IP hogs are big networks that run on public IPs instead of private NATs, universities, banks, other large organisations, etc. And it doesn't really matter now anyway since we do have IPv6, and most modern equipment can resolve it. If my ISP offered IPv6 blocks that'd be great - but they don't. They only use IPv4. The sooner they use up their "inexhaustible supply" the sooner they'll mitigate to IPv6, so really I'm doing everyone a favour by using up a few more IPs! The sooner they're used up the sooner everyone moves to IPv6.
You have to have a business account to ask for IP subnets, it's not offered to residential customers. Anyway I'm using the IPs for their intended purpose - setting up internet servers at home!
I've made the thread "unimportant" again. Not sure why it was in the first place.
It's disheartening to see an ISP so publicly deny the fact that IPv4 addresses are running out, but they'll certainly get a surprise sooner or later.
