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I read somewhere that MIT or Stanford have more IP addresses than China or Africa. Perhaps there is an option to buy those?
by qwerta 12y ago
I read somewhere that MIT or Stanford have more IP addresses than China or Africa. Perhaps there is an option to buy those?
- danyork 12y agoNo, Stanford gave that block back in 2000. See: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/with-the-americas-running-out-of-ipv4-its-official-the-internet-is-full/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/with-t... Microsoft has been purchasing blocks of IPv4 space (they bought some off of Nortel a few years back). Obviously they don't have enough.
- hga 12y agoMIT has 18.0.0.0/8, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfriNIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfriNIC Africa has 4 /8s. China is under an Asia-Pacific registry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific_Network_Information_Centre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific_Network_Informati... and from a link off of that, https://www.apnic.net/publications/research-and-insights/ip-address-trends/apnic-resource-range https://www.apnic.net/publications/research-and-insights/ip-... they have 44 /8s plus a /12 from their initial allocation, plus some "ranges from the IANA recovered pool"; according to the Wikipedia article they were the first Regional Internet Registry to run out of /8s.