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This is at least partly historical. Early adopters got allocated IP space before it was apparent that it would be scarce. I seem to recall that MIT has an entir
by eep_social 2y ago
This is at least partly historical. Early adopters got allocated IP space before it was apparent that it would be scarce. I seem to recall that MIT has an entire class A. I think the US military had a whole pile of class As as well. I haven’t kept up with this layer so I don’t know whether any of this has been returned to ease allocation woes, but I doubt it.
- teddyh 2y agoAs I recall, people have figured that at the speed which IPv4 addresses were given out (before they ran out), even if all possible unused addresses were reclaimed (which would be a huge pain to do), it would last at most, IIRC, a few months more. So it would help some, but would not really be worth it.