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MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be)

Posted by msmash on from the hmm dept.

An anonymous reader shares: MIT no longer owns 18.0.0.0/8. That's a very big block of scarce IPv4 addresses that have become available again. One block inside this /8, more specifically 18.145.0.0/16, was transferred to Amazon.

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  1. RTFA by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 5, Funny

    I did it! I read the whole article. And so did everybody who read the summary.

    1. Re:RTFA by tempest69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Because IPv4 addresses are valuable ($10 range currently) Having 16.7 Million of them is a nice chunk of change, letting 65K of them go for free seems to be a breach of fiduciary responsibility by someone.

  2. Trade. by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone traded 10.0.0.0/8 for it. MIT got a deal, because like /. UIDs, lower numbered ones are better!

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  3. Re:RTFMA by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Needs an "M" in there for "misleading". MIT hasn't released the entire /8 back to ARIN; AFAICT from whois queries they've transfered a whole bunch of /16s (20+) directly over to Amazon, all of which are above the 18.145.0.0 line. Given the highly non-contiguous allocations across the upper half of the /8 range the most likely cause is that they've received chunk of cash for giving Amazon all the /16s that they were not currently actively using.

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  4. Re: But Why? by NotInHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oblig xkcd https://xkcd.com/865/