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IPV4 Prices
interservermike
Member, Patron Provider
in General
Did anyone notice ipv4 prices falling?
A little over a year ago $50 per IP.
Now $30.
Comments
Where are you checking prices?
https://ipv4connect.com/marketplace
Finally ipv6 kicking in and ipv4 becomes not so relevant?
Ipv6 will never become mainstream
Ooo, don't saden @yoursunny
IPv4 will be exhausted.
I am curious how many layers of NAT will be deployed by numerous home ISPs before finally ditching IPv4
Eh most is Cloudflare and IPv6
I'm speaking from lack of knowledge likely but why couldn't IPv6 just be like ip v4 with decimals (or make an ipv8) in decimal or whatever else is bigger. Like why all this ffff,bbbb crap. It's not that I can't figure it out, I just feel quite annoyed having to.
almost everyone is, except pushup man.
no-ipv6 gang.
Would just run out again and we'd be in the same situation.
Fair answer but maybe then an ipv10 in decimal might suffice? 10 decimals to me is easier to remember but that's just me. Anyways I still would like one day to bymy own ip but I don't see like single ips being sold to start with and maybe it doesn't work that way
it's efficient for storage, since its beyond remembering versus ipv4 anyway. With numerical octets it would be insane large numbers.
Although if you really want to remember it versus using (m)DNS/hostnames (which is a good practice!):
the first octets in IPv6 are fixed per provider (eg /32)
the next one is customer allocation (eg /48)
the next bits are per assigned network (/64)
the last bits are per assigned endpoint (/128)
this is the same with IPv4 back when anyone and their mother could have entire ranges. I'm glad they went all the way with IPv6 with the ridiculous amount so we can have those times back. It takes a different mindset to see the opportunities
Fair point for sure, I usually change mindsets but I never will for this one... this annoys me as much as email hosting and the invasion on the eastern side of the world
Well, I am sure you would prefer implementing IPv6 rather than participating in war :D
yeah agree. thats why I think burying it under DNS is a good practice
and invasions as politics. apply abstraction and keep it simple stupid is my believes
This is very true, thank you for that lol
Make DNS popular again!!! Not that it wasn't well used but now it's just even more a must! Xoxo DNS
Like, isn't it a main purpose of DNS? Not explicitly for IPv6, but yeah
I think it's more important for ISP to implement ipv6. Seems like every new car, phone, iPad, and smartwatch now connects to Internet.
I can't imagine that every IOT device has an ipv4 address.
kinda. there's types like MX and moving the management to a centric point as the main purpose so renumbering isn't a giga pain
remembering up to three numbers in a fixed range is so easy it becomes a bad habit. heck isn't 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 burned in so many minds?
Keep smoking whatever is it you're smoking my friend.
V6 will never be mainstream outside of mobile.
10 - 15 years from now we'll be 3 CGNAT layers deep, but probably more for surveillance reasons than exhaustion.
Francisco
On one of our remote locations the isp doesn't provide dedicated IPv4. The dvr setup there is very old and relied on a free ddns service built in the panel. The company of course started charging for their ddns service and now my company has to pay $5 a month for the freaking ddns. It's daytime robbery. A dedicated ip wud be much cheaper. NAT is the worst.
And mobile is so minuscule? How about IoT? I guess my pot smoker has ipv6.
Easier to roll out v6 there when devices are bare ass on the 'wire' and they all have v6 day 1 or whatever.
You're not having to deal with funny home user routers and other things like that.
Still, nice dinner gift card bet if you're interested
Francisco
It'll get there eventually because of MOBILE. More and more people in the world have electricity and smartphones every day and connect to the internet. Thus, more and more websites have to connect via IPv6 to connect to mobile. However, I think we are a very long time, if not forever until we get IPv6 implemented on LAN.
Idk. Seems like a big belly of the handful providers just needs to say go. ship (new) customers IPv6 capable routers with SLAAC/DHCPv6. Most OS just accept whatever is announced. Nearly everything is proxied by Cloudflare which provides IPv6 in return. I honestly don't see what the big deal is
Prices are coming down quickly right now.
What is the reason for that?
I think post-pandemic normalization. supply/demand.
Sucks for whoever had to buy at the time.