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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)
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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

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[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wish the industry would switch to IPv6 already, IPv4 is really outdated.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

IPv4 is really outdated.

Dirty IT open secret. Lots and LOTS of IT still running mission critical workloads is outdated too, but still running.

[–] ralakus@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We still had a networked DOS 3.1 server running at my last job for the intercom system in the building when I was IT that ended up blowing up in a power surge we had (it was wired into a direct 12v power rail that for some reason had no surge protection). Of course they did the obvious thing to do and spent $4k to get the exact same DOS 3.1 box second hand to replace it with

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

For the intercom? That’s just perfect! Not for some impossible to replace multi million dollar industrial equipment, or complex medical devices, nooo… for the fkn intercom.