Back in 2009, I got my first /22 from RIPE without any waitlist drama. They don't make them like that anymore. Just saw the announcement — RIPE's finally drained the last recoverable pool.
I remember when IPv6 was "two years away" in 2011. Then 2014. Then 2017. The timeline keeps slipping like a bad RAID rebuild.
Still running some of those original allocations on ancient Cisco gear. The hardware outlived the address space policy.
RFC 6177 (IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites) said /48 minimum. Nobody listened. Now we have NAT444 and carrier-grade misery.
AS numbers are still available at least. My prefix at AS64512 is safe. Anyone without an ASN complaining about the waitlist — what did you expect? The writing was on the RFC wall since 2011.
Diagram of IPv4 exhaustion: https://www.ripe.net
[RIPE pool] ====X==== [empty]
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[waitlist] ~~~~ [you are here]
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Gg no re
My boxes been v6 ready since 2019 yall noobs sleeping on this pwned yourselves
Yikes that waitlist tho
Bro this is wild!!! Im position 8473 in the wiatlist and I signed up in JANUARY!!! Hostign my game server on a /32 nat behind nat behind nat now bro this is not sustainable!!!
Might just grab a v6 only from Hetzner and call it a day bro!!!
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Server hosting in 2026 be like.
My box on HostHatch still v4 only tho yikes!
Waitlist position 12041. Ticket open. Waiting.
V6 tunnel from CloudCone. Goes down again. Ticket open. Waiting.
Ancient cisco still passing traffic in 2024?
Same issue with v6 tunnels always dying on me
