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Re:Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1 by Joeri on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @01:56PM (#17181467)
What is the practical difference?
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Re:Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1 by MattSteelblade on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:43PM (#17181886)
From RIPE, "An allocation is the block of IP addresses that is reserved by the RIPE NCC for your use now and in the future. An assignment is a block of IP addresses from your allocation that is used on an active network."

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management...

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Re:Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1 by brutal_chaos on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:04PM (#17181550)
I was curious as well and found this:

https://serverfault.com/questions/191497/ip-addresses-assign...

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Re:Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1 by seanp2k2 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:03PM (#17181546)
It didn’t do the bad thing until after it was assigned, so no one cared when it was allocated.
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