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The same reason Apple, Ford, and Bell Labs still have giant blocks — they got in at the beginning when allocation of 4 billion addresses seemed like a non-probl

by wrs 5y ago

The same reason Apple, Ford, and Bell Labs still have giant blocks — they got in at the beginning when allocation of 4 billion addresses seemed like a non-problem, and haven’t sold out. https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-add...

gjsman-1000 5y ago
Holy moly, Apple owns all of 17 . * . * . * (workaround for HN formatting)? Wow. That's over 16 million IP addresses. Fun.
- iso1210 5y ago
  Apple at least is a major IT company, but Ford!
  - rbanffy 5y ago
    They needed IP addresses for all their computers. ;-)
- deathanatos 5y ago
  CIDR notation is how you notate these; Apple owns 17.0.0.0/8; the /8 meaning "8 bits identify the network portion", so just the first octet, or the 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing#CIDR_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing... Coincidentally, CIDR doesn't conflict with the HN comment syntax. Sometimes shortened to 17/8, but… I wouldn't recommend that.
  - nickthemagicman 5y ago
    > Sometimes shortened to 17/8 This isn't Ipv6! :P
- mkl 5y ago
  Use \*: 17.*.*.*
- fasdfav213 5y ago
  This is already old news, the current who's who in the network is related to IPv6 You bet everybody already jumped in that boat. It would be interesting to know who and how.
merrywhether 5y ago
I think I found a way for the USPS to fund the pensions for all their future yet-to-be-born workers…