Day: March 1, 2011

As you know, we “ran out” of “normal” (IPv4) addresses at the end of last month, so we need to start getting familiar with IPv6. So, in that spirit, here’s your “Factoid of the Day!”

With IPv4 there are a possible 4.3 billion addresses… and yes, the last ones were officially assigned last month. (Obviously, this means “public facing IPs,” not “NAT’ed ones.”)

With IPv6 there are 340 undecillion addresses, or 64 billion IPs for every square centimeter on earth!

Wow!

Some Google users have lost their address books, and other data, but it SHOULD be restored soon.

Gmail outage locks some users out of e-mail

“Google was still working to restore access to its Gmail e-mail service to a handful of customers on Monday, a day after an outage prevented a few users from accessing their e-mails. A message posted to the Google Apps status page at 10:40pm Eastern Sunday said engineers were ‘working to restore full access,’ and full access would be restored in the ‘near future.’

No update had been provided as to if the issue had been fully resolved, although the company noted the issue affected only .08% of the total Gmail user base.

Those struck by the outage noted that messages, chat histories, and contacts appeared to be missing. In some cases, the accounts appeared as if they had been wiped. The problem first appeared around 3:09pm Sunday afternoon according to Google.

Google’s Gmail is used by about 170 million users worldwide. Based on the numbers given about 136,000 users are thought to be affected, although that number has not been officially confirmed. It is unclear as to how many may still be experiencing issues, if any.”