Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'

Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by azinman2 on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:01PM (#21379662)

Again, to me the OP is talking explicitly about places where you have to enter it in. What are the other mechanisms? Let’s forget about situations where you can copy/paste or use DHCP.

My answer would be to use my phone to take a photo of the address (if not easily accessible via web browser), and then use that to manually enter it. Probably not a situation where you can rely on memory, unfortunately.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by oarsinsync on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:47PM (#21380843)

Outside of the NIC and DNS, where else do you need to enter in an IP literal?

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by zenexer on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:03PM (#21381641)

Firewalls, for example. We have huge files containing risk levels for various IP addresses. Most of it is automated, but sometimes we have to tweak something manually. These aren't IP addresses that we control, so DNS isn't helpful. Often we're dealing with ranges as well, for which DNS is also unhelpful.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:35AM (#21384472)

Technically, you could claim you're authoritative, just hope the assignments don't leak ;-)

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by gbear605 on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:19PM (#21382831)

Connecting to things on your local network

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by mping on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:05PM (#21381660)

Dns resolver Internal IPs

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