DoD IP Space

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Feb 12 09:06:21 UTC 2021


Eric, I’d argue that does fall within the definition of incompetence called out by Izaac.

I’m talking about how you run out of RFC-1918 space (if you choose to use it in the first place) without incompetence.

Owen


> On Feb 11, 2021, at 09:15 , Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You don't, you wastefully assign a /24 to every unique thing that you think needs an internal management IP block (even if there's 5 things that answer pings there), and decide it's too much work to renumber things. Easy for a big ISP that's also acquired many small/mid-sized ISPs to run out of v4 private IP space that way.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 4:05 AM Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com <mailto:owen at delong.com>> wrote:
> Please explain to me how you uniquely number 40M endpoints with RFC-1918 without running out of
> addresses and without creating partitioned networks.
> 
> If you can’t, then I’m not the one making excuses.
> 
> Owen
> 
> 
> > On Feb 9, 2021, at 15:44 , Izaac <izaac at setec.org <mailto:izaac at setec.org>> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 02:36:57PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >> it is definitely possible to run out of RFC-1918 space with scale and no incompetence.
> > 
> > No, it isn't.  It's the year 2021.  Stop making excuses.
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