Dept. of Defense IPV6

[Popeyedcookie]

Is there any reason why the heck the DoD needs 42,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses???
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The US Department of Defense has 42 million billion billion billion IPv6 addresses - Pingdom Royal

 

[Zekester2097]

whut 0.0




why do they need THAT MANY???

 

[Popeyedcookie]

The answer is they don't. The problem is that we've learned nothing about running out of ipv4 space. That's how it started just giving out way more space than what was needed to companies and organizations. I understand that ipv6 has a number that the human mind can't comprehend but come one at this rate how long until ipv6 will be running out?

 

[1etherer]

Is there any reason why the heck the DoD needs 42,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses???
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The US Department of Defense has 42 million billion billion billion IPv6 addresses - Pingdom Royal

That is quite alot, and given there public IPs is more than needed really... however they have them now so they could sell them if needed (dont see how lol).

The total amount of IPv6 is..
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion, 463 sextillion, 463 quintillion, 374 quadrillion, 607 trillion, 431 billion, 768 million, 211 thousand and 456

Crazy!lol