[145435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Botnets buying up IPv4 address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Oct 8 12:16:58 2011
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:14:55 +0200
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLabH2RJzc==now4_CDm8vYViuATWwby50uqXhWNUuc3ZHw@mail.gmail.com>
(Christopher Morrow's message of "Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:15:34 -0400")
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>,
Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Christopher Morrow:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I agree with Benson.
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0In fact, for this "problem" I find irrelevant that IPv4 i=
s running out. They are just looking for good reputation IP nodes.
>
> isn't this a short-lived problem then?
IPv4 addresses will never run out in a strict sense of the word, it
will just become increasingly more difficult to reassign IPv4 address
space to those who need it.
