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This isn't sensitive information. Anyone with a BGP session can have this information. [1] [1] = https://bgp.he.net/AS714#_prefixes https://bgp.he.net/AS714#_p
by mariomariomario 7y ago
This isn't sensitive information. Anyone with a BGP session can have this information. [1]
[1] = https://bgp.he.net/AS714#_prefixes https://bgp.he.net/AS714#_prefixes
- vonseel 7y agoPretty amazing that a single company can own an entire block of IP space, if I understand this correctly. Approx how many addresses is this?
- minhazm 7y agoIt's a /8, which is 2^(32 - 8) = 16.7 million address.
- dogecoinbase 7y agoApple has a /8 of IPv4 space (plus a couple other small allocations: https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/APPLEC-1-Z/nets https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/APPLEC-1-Z/nets ), which contains 16777216 addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...
- enjoy-your-stay 7y agoWell that should just be about enough for each customer on Apple iWeb Cloud Services to have their own ip address once it gets started.. :')
- jodrellblank 7y ago16.7 million or so. IPv4 is a 32 bit address space, so it tops out around 4.2 billion total. 17.0.0.0/8 is locking down the first 8 bits, giving 2^(32-8) variable bits, or there are only 256 possible first octets and this is one so it’s 1/256th of 4.2 billion addresses.
- koolba 7y agoIt’s even more when you factor in link local and private network ranges.
- manigandham 7y agoEverybody has those for themselves.
- koolba 7y agoThat’s what I’m saying. The set of addresses allocated to Apple (in their /8) is an even larger ratio as the private ranges don’t count towards the denominator.
- brodie78382 7y agoI used to work for HP and someone explained to me a select few companies got /8's when the internet was still young. HP got one, Compaq had one which HP now also owns. I was basically told if you had a /8 you didn't give it up because of how valuable and rare they now are (this was around 2010, too). GE, Kodak, Apple, and Microsoft were a few other names that came up in that discussion as well.
- flotwig 7y agoGE actually sold their entire 3.0.0.0/8 block off to AWS a few years ago. It's a little awkward since a lot of internal software is still configured to whitelist all access from that space since it was a constant for so long.
- vonseel 7y agoI wonder what became of the Kodak block? Seems GE would find more use/investment for IP space than a failed film company (IIRC)...
- owenmarshall 7y agoWe called this threxit internally. (Get it? Three dot exit? ;)) And as far as I know we haven’t stopped threxiting — at least they hadn’t when I left. It turns out unwinding IT systems that have had stable IP addresses for 30+ years in a year or two is tricky business.
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- paulie_a 7y agoThe post office has/had one
- xxpor 7y agoThe DOD has like 5 or 6!
- kalleboo 7y agoThis map was drawn 13 years ago so it's heavily out of date but it does illustrate the companies that got their ip /8 blocks back the day (Ford?!) https://xkcd.com/195/ https://xkcd.com/195/
- takeda 7y agoFord, Prudential, Halliburton, USPS, Department of Social Security of UK. Someone must have been really high when deciding this. BTW: this one is better: https://www.caida.org/research/id-consumption/census-map/images/20061108.png https://www.caida.org/research/id-consumption/census-map/ima...
- treypitt 7y agoWon't every vehicle soon have its own IP address? Many must have them already. IoT means some devices need multiple IP addresses
- kalleboo 7y agoFord was assigned it's netblock in 1988. It was definitely not assigned with IoT in mind. And if they deployed IoT today, they would just use the mobile telco's dynamic IP addresses and communicate through HTTP.
- semi-extrinsic 7y agoThe entire 32.0.0.0 used to be owned by a company that provided IT services to the Norwegian public sector. They had 4 IPs for every citizen in the country, and change.
- simonh 7y agoDesktop, laptop, phone and tablet. Damn, ran out of IPs for the XBOX.
- asymptotically2 7y agoYou could (and should) do that with IPv6. Down with NAT! :)
- guan 7y agoNetwork address, gateway, one usable IP address, broadcast address :-)
- ska 7y agoThere are many of them (obviously not very many) - Universities, too iirc. Most have divested by now. It correlates strongly with big organizations who were "into" networking early on.
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- lvh 7y agoIt is public those are Apple’s IPs. It is not public they are downloading data from this S3 bucket, never mind how much.