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Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space


From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews () isc org>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:39:26 +1100


In message <ADE1A7A6-7177-4C77-8023-60058FDF076B () ianai net>, "Patrick W. Gilmor
e" writes:
On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Anthony Roberts wrote:

Let's face it - they're going to have to come up with much more  
creative
$200/hour chucklehead consultants to burn through that much anytime  
soon.

It has been my experience that when you give someone a huge address  
space
to play with (eg 10/8), they start doing things like using bits in the
address as flags for things. Suddenly you find yourself using a prefix
that should enough for a decent sized country in a half-rack.

It's only slightly harder to imagine a /48 being wasted like that.

Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used one  
trillion IP addresses.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

        But they will when you will exceeded 65536 networks.

        Mark
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