[124803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bertrand)
Mon Apr 5 09:20:51 2010
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:20:16 -0400
From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To: "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" <nanog2@adns.net>
In-Reply-To: <502AB654CA724523B8B377300EBE11A0@TAKA>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2010.04.02 19:29, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net>
> To: "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" <nanog2@adns.net>
> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 5:52 PM
> Subject: Re: legacy /8
>
>
>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:48:44PM -0500, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
>>> On the topic of IP4 exhaustion: 1/8, 2/8 and 5/8 have all been
>>> assigned in the last 3 months yet I don't see them being allocated
>>> out to customers (users) yet.
>>>
>>> Is this perhaps a bit of hoarding in advance of the complete
>>> depletion of /8's?
>>
>> Doubt it. 1/8 is still being evaluated to determine just how usable
>> portions of it are, thanks to silly people of the world that decided
>> 1.1.1.x and the like were 1918 space.
>>
>> As for the others, the RIR requests it when they are running low,
>> but certainly not exhausted, and as slow as people are to update their
>> bogon filters, it sounds like general good practice not to assign out of
>> a new /8 until pre-existing resources are exhausted.
>>
>
> Was looking for the "allocated" file on the ARIN website, but can't
> remember
> where it is. They used to have a file with one line per allocation that
> started
> like this "arin|US|ipv4". Is that still public somewhere?
If you are looking for what blocks have been allocated to ARIN by IANA,
the file is maintained on the IANA site:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/
If you're referring to the IP space ARIN has issued out, I don't know if
there is a single authoritative text list (at least I couldn't find one
quickly). There is a mailing list maintained by ARIN that tracks daily
issued blocks, but it appears to have archives going back only to late 2k8:
http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-issued
Steve
