IPv4 Mismanagement

Justin Streiner streinerj at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 01:22:05 UTC 2020


It is a thankless task, but something that becomes increasingly important
as $provider starts to run low on IPv4 space to assign to customers.

Thank you
jms

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 20:19 Tom Hill <tom at ninjabadger.net> wrote:

> On 04/10/2020 02:17, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
> > Groups that have such things I can only presume do not do a good job
> > of periodically going through and auditing their IP allocations or, if
> > they do, then they don't do a good enough job of cleaning up all the
> > details.
>
> It is a long-winded, laborious, thankless task (well, mostly thankless)
> and we should be writing software to do it for us. Of course, we all
> know how bad everyone is at that, ergo it isn't often done.
>
> On the other hand, perhaps these ISPs are worried that they might be
> audited by an RIR?
>
> --
> Tom
>
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