All tricks to make the patient live longer were in vain...v4 is not dead but will not live long.
We will have to learn IPv6: now there is ping6, traceroute6, etc, etc. loopback is then ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1 and so on. If I type e.g. ping6 v6.facebook.com I get "unknown host" at present. It is not far the day when I will get a response. The more advanced countries have it already implemented. V6 should last forever(?).
If you install bind 9 (ipv6-ready) and dig into some server sites, you will find out that many are now ready: v6.google.com, v6.youtube.com, v6.facebook.com and many more. The bad thing is that ipv6 and ipv4 are incompatible (almost). Will IPv4 die? The problem has many sides: the ISP's will have to handle v6 and v4 until the users are all v6 ready? Or should there a v4 world wide blackout?
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