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IPv4 D-Day Nears as a Huge Chunk of Remaining Addresses is Allocated to ISPs
Posted by: Jordi on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 - 03:06 PM
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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources, has just allocated two /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses each to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and RIPE NCC. The move means that only seven /8s remain in IANA's free pool of addresses (2.7%).
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