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by hkjhreiou 2416 days ago
So what's the latest deal with IPv6?

IPv4 was supposed to run out and the Internet come crashing down 5 years ago, yet here we are, and everything seems just fine, while a billion smartphones were added.

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> while a billion smartphones were added

A huge number of them being on IPv6-only mobile networks using NAT64 to access the old Internet.

That was a really bad miscommunication - especially as we are running out of IPv4 in Europe this month. - see https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/when-does-ripe-run-out-of-ipv4-ad...