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UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses
hypnosec writes "The Department of Work and Pensions in the UK has a /8 block of IPv4 addresses that is unused. An e-petition was created asking the DWP to sell off the block to ease the IPv4 address scarcity in the RIPE region. John Graham-Cumming, the person who first discovered the unused block, discovered that these 16.9 million IP addresses were unused after checking in the ASN database."
You can have 51.51.51.51, but I've got dibs on 0x33333333.
Oops, I mentioned global warming, I guess that makes me a troll.
Well, windows not being able to get into the internet is a big advantage of IPv6!
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Wealth can be measured in pieces of eight.
who prays for Satan? Who in 18 centuries has had the humanity to pray for the 1 sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain
Someone used the Imperial IP which is slightly bigger than the Metric IP, hence the result is 16.9.
Mastering the English language is fucking easy: all you have to do is to put an f* word in every fucking sentence.
Ah, the widescreen version.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
They're holding on to them until the rest of the world coughs up the missing Dr Who episodes.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
No, that doesn't, but acting like the issue is settled and done with does. Pick something less controversial and more agreed on next time. There are plenty of examples you could have used to support your point which are not politically charged topics.
In other words, play it safe - use gay marriage as your example next time.
#DeleteChrome
that's the price of progress
I believe in the incremental approach to updates; it's so much safer and usually easier.
So it's going to be IPv5 for me, while you suckers make a mess of IPv6!
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
"The Slashdot user known as bbn has a /48 block of IPv6 addresses that is unused. An e-petition was created ..."
I'm sorry if I haven't offended anyone