I read an article that says “amassing IP addresses has become a lucrative business because the American internet registry and its counterparts around the world are running out of unique addresses—or at least the current version, IPv4, of which there are about four billion. A switch to the next generation is under way, which will make billions more addresses available, but it will take years to complete.” Why is it so hard to just type a code that creates more addresses?
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IPv4 is a big neighborhood, and people kept building more and more houses. Each house needs a house number so that they can get mail, but there’s only a certain amount of space in the neighborhood before every plot is taken, and there’s no more room to build another house.
IPv6 is a *much* bigger neighborhood, and it’ll let us keep building houses and giving them house numbers for a long, long time. Before we can start delivering mail there, though, we need to get every post office to agree that they’ll deliver mail to those new house addresses.
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