| gabriel rosenkoetter on 13 Oct 2006 00:47:48 -0000 |
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:28:50PM -0400, Toby DiPasquale wrote: > UPenn owns 5 /16's. I don't know what they all are, but I know they own > 5 of them. Drexel has 2 or 3 of them and Villanova has one. I'll bet > other schools have some, too (e.g. MIT, Stanford, etc). Hell, even li'l ol' Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr own a /16 apiece and, last I checked, were still doling out theoretically globally-addressable (though, obviously, filtered) addresses to each and every student, professor, staff, and lab PC. I eagerly await the day someone catches a clue and just returns the damn things to ARIN for reallocation. I mean, it's not like you actually have to *pay* for them... YET. Nor like using them for anything that doesn't need to be externally accessible (never mind the things that do need to be but work fine through NAT) makes any damn sense. No, instead we have home ISPs doing double-NAT (once on their network, once at the Cable/DSL modem/router they gave you), making your Internet connection functionally read-only outside a session you requested (not that this is a useful guard against compromise of home PCs, of course), since they haven't a prayer at coming up with enough IPs for even their comparatively small subscriber base. Sigh... -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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