Are our public IPs shared?
Hi, just a general question about our public IP addresses, are they shared between customers? I thought our IPs are dynamic so you might get a different one every so often, but thought they'd be uni...
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Yes. The internet would not work if it was shared. That’s why we are running out of IP v4 addresses.
Tudor wrote:Yes. The internet would not work if it was shared. That’s why we are running out of IP v4 addresses.
The main internet registries ran out of IPv4 addresses to allocate over a decade ago. The fact that companies like Virgin Media still have IPv4 addresses to use demonstrates how wasteful the allocation was.
