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Over the past few years there has been increasing concern about the shortage of IPv4 addresses. It’s now starting to grab the attention of the media, and for good reason. At one point it must have seemed like the 4 billion IPv4 addresses would be more than enough but there are currently less than 10% left, and they’re going fast. Exactly when they will run out is difficult to predict. The widespread usage of NAT has helped to prolong the availability of public addresses, but an interesting page here predicts only 86 days left at the time of writing. This…