North America's IPv4 address supply runs dry

Posted by JaseP on Sep 25, 2015 2:50 PM EDT
ZDNet; By Toby Wolpe
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The long-predicted exhaustion of IPv4 addresses has now taken place in North America, with the region's authority left with no further supply of the 32-bit labels to issue.

For the first time, the body responsible for allocating IP addresses in North America says its free pool of IPv4 numerical labels is exhausted.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers, or ARIN, yesterday issued the final free-pool 32-bit IP addresses, essential for identifying and locating devices on the internet.

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