Re: [libreoffice-website] IPv4 address limitations

I am wondering with the current setup to save costs on ip addresses could
NAT be used or would the data center block natted traffic?

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Florian Effenberger <
floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we received the news that our ISP will be much more restrictive about IPv4
> addresses in the near future, probably beginning in early December.
>
> Right now, their pricing is 1 € per extra IP, and for our subnet with 30
> usable IPs, we pay 22,50 € per month.
>
> In the worst case, they will charge 5 € per extra IP and month in the
> future, which woulde produce additional costs of more than 100 € per month.
> We have no pricing details yet, so the above is based on assumptions.
>
> However, this will mean that very shortly, we might run into the situation
> that we can not provide IPv4 addresses generously anymore for virtual
> machines, not even for all productive ones.
>
> Ideally, we can at least migrate some internal services exclusively to
> IPv6, but this won't work for all public services. In this case, we then
> might have to use port forwarding and proxying.
>
> I hope we can avoid most inconveniences, and keep a safe amount of IPv4
> addresses, but I wanted to warn all of you already now that the luxurious
> situation we are in at the moment might end soon.
>
> It definitely makes sense for anyone who runs testing VMs or internal
> services to make yourself comfortable with IPv6 *now*. Should your ISP not
> provide native IPv6 connectivity (which unfortunately is true for most ISPs
> around the globe), have a look at http://www.tunnelbroker.net,
> http://www.sixxs.net or google for "6to4".
>
> Florian
>
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