Hi,
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:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.txt
Please update your filters as appropriate.
The IANA free pool contains 24 unallocated unicast IPv4 /8s.
Regards,
Leo Vegoda
Number Resources Manager, IANA
ICANN
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.
-Tim
Who said the water at the bottom of the barrel of IPv4 addresses will be
very pure? We ARE running out and the global pain is increasing.
- Alain.
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.
Ricky Beam wrote:
> But it's not all bad. It's assigned to APNIC, so a lot of people will
gladly continue blocking it.
Yeah cause seriously, who does business in Asia or the Pacifc...
Some of that water is dirtier than the rest. I wouldn't want to be the
person who gets 1.2.3.0/24
The whole /8 should be fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnoNet
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:
http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/
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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamachi.
Lots of "fun" in store for us in the future. Might think about moving to IPv6... 
Regards,
-drc
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.
- Matt
[snip]
Some of that water is dirtier than the rest. I wouldn't want to be the
person who gets 1.2.3.0/24
Yeah, I encountered some lovely wireless hotspots that use "visit
http://1.1.1.1/ to log out". Seem some vendors encourage the behavior:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/4.1/configuration/guide/c41users.html
(as propagated by 'amerispot.com', 'vhotspot.com.au', and some vendor
I forget who does a lot of marine 802.11<->sat NAT service).
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.
a message of 20 lines which said:
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....
http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/
* William Allen Simpson:
Bill Stewart wrote:
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).
Also, 27/8 is clearly in the middle of a group of North American military
assignments. So at the very least, these aren't very CIDR'ish.
Is that operationally relevant to the /8 assignment process?
Why not 36 & 37?
Random selection to ensure that no RIR can accuse IANA of bias. See
David's previous post:
http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/
Nick