The IANA IPv4 registry has been updated to reflect the allocation
of two /8 IPv4 blocks to APNIC in January 2010: 1/8 and
27/8. You can find the IANA IPv4 registry at:
Having 1/8 allocated cannot be a blessing... There must be thousands of
underskilled in the wild with stuff configured for 1/8. It's like a
magnet for unwanted noise traffic.
I was thinking the same thing. I know of many installations where 1/8 has been used internally. Technically, they're mostly all "mainframe" installations that are never supposed to be connected to the internet, but they're accessed by machines that are. (that are already using private IPv4 space.)
But it's not all bad. It's assigned to APNIC, so a lot of people will gladly continue blocking it.
To avoid addressing conflict with the internet itself, the range
1.0.0.0/8 is used. This is to avoid conflicting with internal networks
such as 10/8, 172.16/12 and 192.168/16, as well as assigned Internet
ranges. In the event that 1.0.0.0/8 is assigned by IANA, anoNet could
move to the next unassigned /8, though such an event is unlikely, as
1.0.0.0/8 has been reserved since September 1981.
I thought there was some other group that had been squatting in 1/8, something about radio and peer to peer...but not AnoNet (at least that name was totally unfamiliar)...but this was all I could find with a quick google.
In the event that 1.0.0.0/8 is assigned by IANA, anoNet could
move to the next unassigned /8, though such an event is unlikely, as
1.0.0.0/8 has been reserved since September 1981.
Sounds like a non-winning strategy to me. It's just a (random) matter of time until they get to do the same thing again, see:
I thought there was some other group that had been squatting in 1/8, something about radio and peer to peer...but not AnoNet (at least that name was totally unfamiliar)...but this was all I could find with a quick google.
There are other folks who are playing Russian Roulette, e.g. Hamachi - Wikipedia.
Lots of "fun" in store for us in the future. Might think about moving to IPv6...
Yeah, they're not the only bunch of idiots who think that "unallocated"
means "free for all". I'm reliably informed that Hamachi uses 5/8 (for the
same reasons as this AnoNet bunch). There's probably others out there. Fun
times ahead for moron-fac^Wcustomer-facing support personnel.
I agree that 1/8 was probably about the *last* that should have been
allocated. It's particularly frustrating that they made two
assignments at the same time, but not to adjacent routing blocks....
Some of that water is dirtier than the rest. I wouldn't want to be the
person who gets 1.2.3.0/24
I'd guess that 1.1.1.1 and 2.2.2.2 are probably much more widely used.
At least 1.1.1.0/24 should be reserved by IANA or somebody.
I agree that 1/8 was probably about the *last* that should have been
allocated.
It's probably better to decouple the pain of taking 1/8 and 2/8 into
production from the general pain of running out in ernest (assuming
that we ever enter an age where IP addresses are a scarce resource).
