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Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
- From: Matt Zimmerman
- Date: Wed Mar 13 22:16:25 1996
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
[give ISP's blocks out of 65/8, 96/8?]
> Of course, there is one little problem with this....
>
> bash$ whois 65
> Air Force Logistics Command (ASN-LOGNET) LOGNET-AS 65
> IANA (RESERVED-7) Reserved 64.0.0.0 - 95.0.0.0
>
> bash$ whois 96
> Army Finance and Accounting Office (ASN-JTELS) JTELS-BEN1-AS 96
> IANA (RESERVED-8) Reserved 96.0.0.0 - 126.0.0.0
>
> How did these guys get such big chunks of address space reserved?
IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. The address space is theirs to
delegate in the first place. 64/8-126/8 is old Class-A space that is
"reserved indefinitely" according to RFC1466 (May '93).
// Matt Zimmerman Chief of System Management NetRail, Inc.
// mdz@netrail.net sales@netrail.net
// (703) 524-4800 [voice] (703) 524-4802 [data] (703) 534-5033 [fax]
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