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What's with the 192.* block?
It seems the IPs of many of the servers I get start with 192. DigitalOcean gives out IPs like that, my RamNode server has an IP from that block, I had a VPS for a short time from ShoveHost that had an IP from there, and my IPXCore DNS box does as well. The theory that I have (because I know next to nothing about networking. Routing? What's that?) is that since there is also a class of special local IPs (192.168.*) in the block, it's being handed out last as IPv4 depletion is coming down to the wire. But what do I know? Maybe it's just pure coincidence, but each time I get a new VPS like this, I get more curious, so can anyone tell me why this is?
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192.0.0.0/24 wasn't meant to be handed out indeed, but this is what happens when you have a shortage and people willing to pay for more ;-)
Hello ipv4 shortage!
Yeah I've noticed that too, recently got a 192.* IP with Dacentec
Arin have been using this to assign space the past few months.
Only 192.168/16 is meant to be used for private space as per http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918 so everything else is available.
Also 192 was not meant to be given out, like, that's what they said to eachother (RIRs) before the shortage
I have:
184.154.70.78
94.249.203.121
192.227.129.75
108.174.53.153
108.174.53.154
This are all my IP adresses.
94.249.203.121
192.227.129.75
108.174.53.153
108.174.53.154
Brute force + ddos time
/joke
Actually 192/8 was used for very long time, i see some assignments from 1992 there.
Oh, haha, too bad they still use ipv4 while ipv6 was designed in 1998 :-(
Arin's IP is in 192.0.0.0/8
Well, as least I know enough about networking to make one correct educated guess. @all thanks for the answers.
192.0.0.0/24 would only be 192.0.0.1-192.0.0.254. Maybe you meant 192.0.0.0/8 :P
If you're finding that 192.* is giving you an issue, we can change your IP to something else. We haven't really had any complaints about it, except that it doesn't have valid geolocation data, since it's a virgin block that was never issued before.
Oops, I did, wasn't paying enough attention I guess
@Damian Not a problem, just something I've noticed that I was wondering about.
Figured that hehe :P
Seems quite common lately, I've been assigned two blocks in the 192.110.xxx.xxx range which are new assignments too.
Not had any complaints about it though.
We have a few 192. /20's for our company
I dream for a VPS with 8.8.8.* IP.
You don't want to know how much Google has paid for 8.8.8.8
Virtually every VPS I have is in 192/8 except for a few cases (prgmr.com is in 71/8, DO was handing out 185/8 for AMS, "host1free vps" in 94/8 and my initial CVPS (I know) was 96/8).
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To be clear, this isn't a complaint. I'm not having any trouble with my servers under this IP block, I just wanted to know why it was so prevalent.
I've had some people complain about home connections having trouble. Any my 192.73.x.x blocks seem to be geolocated in the UK
i have a few 192.* PI spaces, not unusual for very old assignments.
Its one of the oldest RIPE used network (along with 193 and 194), ARIN owns the other half of it (after .168/16) and started allocating from it just a few months ago.
So if you see 192/8 it's either a very old EU assignment or a new US assignment.
There's nothing wrong with 192 ip's, the private address block is 192.168.0.0/16 which is 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 65535 ip's.
ARIN is handing out the other 192 blocks because that's what they are handing out at the time.
poor IPv4-all this hype today has me Paying close attention to IPv6 now-ahh yes IPv4, it was known as the Pavlova of the Protocols ..
A short while back it was all 199.'s
Yeah, I have one of those too.
You are lucky if you had no complaints, I was asked for a refund because i only gave "internal" IP.
True, 192.165 is really-really close...
After years of typing 192.168 I find it really hard to type any other numbers after 192.... I find myself constantly backspacing