Shortage Of IP Addresses Is On Facebook's To-Do List
Facebook has just announced its particpation in World IPv6 Day on June 8 of this year, when thesocial network joins other major Internet companies test driving a new Internet addressing scheme called IPv6.
Facebook’s strategy of reaching out to other sites outside of the actual social network would plateau if the Internet runs out of addresses (again).
To help prevent that, Facebook has just announced its particpation in World IPv6 Day on June 8 of this year, when the social network joins other major Internet companies test driving a new Internet addressing scheme called IPv6 (today’s addresses all use IPv4).
The new protocol provides four billion times as many addresses as the current one, says Donn Lee on the Facebook Engineering blog today.
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