Where did all the IP numbers go? The US Department of Defense has them


	Where did all the IP numbers go? The US Department of Defense has them

ylodi

2-14-2008 9:32 AM

134 views

tags:

sys

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

The Creature From Jekyll Island (Scary Stuff)

Winclone: Clone/Restore Bootcamp partition...

UNICEF Photos of the Year 2007

"The world will end in 5 minutes. Please l...

SQL Server 2005 List all IDENTITY columns

Wireless Power

More clips from ylodi

Disturbing new trend, bloatware on phones

4 Languages you should learn in 2009

European Commission publishes guidelines o...

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from February 14, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b57cda0b-7e77-496a-829a-7dd1ac156d6d/C4CBC822-970B-46A8-9199-A440A84A3568/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=247" href="http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=247" style="font-size: 11px;">royal.pingdom.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=247"><H3 id="post-247" class="storytitle"><A rel="bookmark" href="http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=247">Where did all the IP numbers go? The US Department of Defense has them</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=247"><P>There have been voices raised that we are <A href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/when_will_we_run_out_of_ipv4/">running out of IPv4 addresses</A> for some time now. So who has taken them? After discussing this at a coffee break here at Pingdom, we were curious. Are there are any “big spenders” who have allocated a huge share of the IP space for themselves? Yes there are.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=247"><P>When looking at the assigned IP blocks at IANA (<A href="http://www.iana.org/">Internet Assigned Numbers Authority</A>), what becomes immediately clear is that the US Department of Defense has a significant number of large IP blocks. We only looked at /8 IP blocks, the largest blocks you can get, and there are 12 of them assigned to the US DoD and related organizations. Each /8 block holds 16,777,214 IP addresses, so the DoD have in effect allocated more than <STRONG>200 million IP addresses</STRONG>. That should hold them for a while.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C4CBC822-970B-46A8-9199-A440A84A3568/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from ylodi

Today's Top Clips