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Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8"
From: Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:53:11 -0700
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:30 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:46:31 -0000, Alec Muffett said:IPv4 Market Group, a global leader in IPv4 sales, has just announcedtheavailability of up to 2.6 million top quality IPv4 addresses forpurchase "top quality"? Well... Yeah. They've probably had no chance to end up in any reputation filters.
One may find that these dark /8s have been co-opted by large networks for private use. That said, these dark /8s and their sub-blocks may have long lasting reach-ability issues that the purchaser may not enjoy. Not saying anything is right or wrong, just saying .... like 1.1.1.0/24, there may reach-ability issues deep in 3rd party networks with these "bottom of the barrel" legacy ipv4 blocks that have been seen as "fair game for squatting on", in some circles, for many years. Caveat emptor / Deploy IPv6 CB
Current thread:
- Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Alec Muffett (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Randy Carpenter (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Christian de Larrinaga (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Ca By (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Christopher Morrow (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Alec Muffett (Mar 13)
- Re: Friday Fun: UK Government (Dept of Work & Pensions) selling off an entire "/8" Randy Carpenter (Mar 13)