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Presumably because they have run out of IPV4 addresses

• tveita 12y ago
  Australia is under APNIC, which started rationing out its last /8 IP block in 2011. Australia has a decent number of allocated addresses, around 2 per capita (compare with India, with 29 addresses per 1000 persons)[1], but presumably they will have to be reclaimed from existing users. A newly started ISP in Australia could get a maximum of 2048 IPv4 addresses from APNIC. [2] If it needed more it would have to transfer them from another owner. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_address_allocation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_addre... [2] http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-exhaustion-details http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-exhausti...
  • mineo 12y ago
    They were talking about Austria (in Europe), not Australia :-)
  • anonymfus 12y ago
    the_mitsuhiko is from Austria, not from Australia.
  • Coincoin 12y ago
    Sorry, there are no kangaroos in Austria.