Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist
by colejohnson66 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:01PM
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Fewer than 4 billion? pow(2, 32) is over 4 billion unless I’m missing something...
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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist
by jcranmer on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:30PM
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Some of the address space is reserved for particular purposes: 127.0.0.0/8 is for loopback, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16 for private addresses, 224.0.0.0/4 is for multicast, and 240.0.0.0/4 is class E and unallocatable for anything.