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This is a link post The Internet will run out of numerical addresses 'in the next 24 hours'
according to the Daily fail - I love the way it contradicts itself a couple of times throughout the piece.
 (confused coyote is still searching for canned Road Runner since, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 8:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post "Subeditor didn't read the aricle" syyndrome?
Maybe I'm being too generous.
 (I helped save b3ta! Zuowan, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 8:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post I myyself suffer from a syyndrome which makes me press the 'yy' keyy twice instead of once.

(I helped save b3ta! Zuowan, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 8:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah,
A Yy's guy, huh?

Why I oughtta!

/3 Stooges
 (dieselmonkey, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 9:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post What I'm funEe?
Do I amUuz Uu?
 (ClungePlunger I drink Sambuca on the rocks and bloody like it!, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 10:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wut!?
"Every device which connects to the internet is assigned a 'number' but with millions of web enabled phones now online they are fast running out."

Yes, 'numbers' can only go so far before just running out!

What the deuce!?
 (I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 9:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's the limit of the IP4 protocol
IP6 is ready to go though
 (I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 3 Feb 2011, 9:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post Something about "I P Freely"

(I helped save b3ta! Zuowan, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 10:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post according to Wikipedia
IPv4 uses 32-bit (four-byte) addresses, which limits the address space to 4,294,967,296 (2^32)
 (confused coyote is still searching for canned Road Runner since, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 10:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Something about "Seymour Butts"

(I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 11:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Something about "Amanda Huggenkis"

(I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 12:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wait a minute...if I ever get a hold of you, I will thank you for showing me the futility of human endeavor.

(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 3 Feb 2011, 13:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bunch of arse
Two reasons, apart from IPv6 this doesn't matter:

1) Most IP addresses are assigned dynamically, and each ISP simply has to decrease the TTL (Time to Live) value to increase IP address coverage.

2) Most companies, and an increasing number of online services use DNS Translation, meaning that each network has another 4 billion addresses to play with.

But let's all panic, anyway :-)
 (farnishk Apparently a terrorist,, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 12:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post ok then

(confused coyote is still searching for canned Road Runner since, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 13:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post I Do Hope
that you don't work in IT. I don't know how you could be any more wrong other than claiming that packets on the Internet are carried by pixies.

1) TTL applies to a TCP datagram and is measured in milliseconds. You seem to have this mixed up with DHCP leases which are measured in hours or days. Reducing this would have very little, if any, effect on the number of IP addresses used by an ISP as the vast majority of us are permanently wired to the Internet via ADSL or cable. As Soon as your lease expires you are given a new one. Virtually instantly.

2) DNS translation. Admit it. You just made that up. DNS has the square root of fuck all to do with IP address allocation. It's simply the way a human readable address, www.b3ta.com, is turned into a machine usable address 207.44.242.20. I repeat - it has bugger all to do with address allocation. I think where you're getting confused here is with NAT or network address translation. Where a router will give out the same external address to the Internet regardless of how many actual address are behind the router. Most companies already use NAT but this isn't an option with an ISP as many Internet services can't be used with NAT at the ISP level. For example, anything that uses port forwarding so very few ISPs use it.

We are running out of Ip addresses and the only thing that can mitigate this is IPv6. That's why it was invented. If your solutions were valid then we wouldn't have bothered.

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 3 Feb 2011, 23:32, , Reply)