ARIN IPs - Gone forever?

patrick7

I know. I'm not an idiot ;-)

singsing

qhoster said: 44.0.0.0/8 Amateur Radio Digital Communications

From their FAQ:

Why do you have such a big netspace?

Dr. Hank Magnuski, KA6M, had the foresight to see that Internet-style networking would be the future and wanted the emerging amateur radio packet network to be able to participate. We were allocated a Class-A network in the 1980's when there was little demand for network space and large swaths of netspace were easily obtained.

Zeast

Time to use AfriNIC's IP
https://ipv6.he.net/v4ex/sidebar/

Epidrive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks

Why the hell does ford need a /8 ?!?

jar

@Epidrive said:
Why the hell does ford need a /8 ?!?

This thread:

telephone

Epidrive said: Why the hell does ford need a /8 ?!?

Why did providers horde mass amounts of IPs before depletion? It's the same with Ford, they saw an opportunity and took it.

qps

telephone said: It's the same with Ford, they saw an opportunity and took it.

It has nothing to do with being opportunistic. Back when Ford and other large companies were assigned their /8, that's what the government was handing out to any large organization that asked for space.

jar

@qps said:
It has nothing to do with being opportunistic. Back when Ford and other large companies were assigned their /8, that's what the government was handing out to any large organization that asked for space.

Yeah but why does Ford need a /8?

Round and round and round we go :P haha

In before someone asks why Ford has a /8.

telephone

@qps said:
It has nothing to do with being opportunistic. Back when Ford and other large companies were assigned their /8, that's what the government was handing out to any large organization that asked for space.

Exactly. They asked! There are plenty of large organizations from the 80s that do not have an /8.

qps

The 10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, and 172.16.0.0/12 space wasn't always defined as private network space. It wasn't formalized in RFCs until the mid-1990s. That's one major reason why companies and universities got large blocks previously.

qps

@Jar Also, I think this explains it?

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104259/they-took-our-jobs

William

telephone said: Exactly. They asked! There are plenty of large organizations from the 80s that do not have an /8.

No, they did not - Back then you either got a few /24s (Class C), a /16 (Class or a /8 (Class A) - Internic (and before that the US gov via NSF) decided what you got when you applied, you could only either request Class Cs or have them decide if you 'need' A or B.