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UK's 'Unallocated' IPv4 Block Actually In Use, Not For Sale

Posted by Unknown on from the we're-really-out-folks dept.

jimboh2k writes "The UK may have 16.9 million 'unused' IPv4 addresses but according to the department that owns them, they're not for sale. The Department of Work and Pensions says it would be too expensive to reallocate those addresses and, even if it did, it would not stave off IPv4 address exhaustion by much." The addresses in question are being used for a new internal government network. Of course, why that project wasn't built using IPv6...

2 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. Re:"new internal government network" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Government workers are completely and totally incompetent.

    FTFY

  2. Re:Let the home office keep them by ifrag · · Score: 5, Funny

    One does not simply "file" a report in the UK.

    ...report to be filed, signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

    --
    Fear is the mind killer.