[155803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Aug 23 02:35:31 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5FE1FB6D43B8A647BBC821840C1AEA8B017CBC@ocsbs.ocosa.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:29:49 -0700
To: "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, valdis@vt.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
AT&T should just be glad there was a /12 for them to get.
That isn't going to be true for much longer.
If you are counting on an IPv4 free pool to run your business next year, =
you are making a bad bet.
Owen
On Aug 22, 2012, at 22:54 , "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com> =
wrote:
> My apologies again, I saw it as 127.0.0.0. and not 172.0.0.0.
>=20
> I've been working long hours last couple nights. Yeah you are probably =
right, since they to pulled that one very close to RFC1918.
>=20
> http://bgp.potaroo.net/ipv4-stats/allocated-arin.html
>=20
>=20
> I would hate to be AT&T for this IP allocation. Heck, I would simple =
push more IPv6 if I were them.
>=20
>=20
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan White [mailto:dwhite@olp.net]=20
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:37 AM
> To: Otis L. Surratt, Jr.
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: 172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated
>=20
> You can do a whois search at arin.net to see the allocation.
>=20
> 172.0.0.0/12 is often confused with the private 172.16.0.0/12 address
> space, which I would consider a 'scraping the bottom of the barrel'
> allocation.
>=20
> I also noticed a couple of subnets in that range showing up in the =
weekly
> Cidr reports, beginning in July.
>=20
> On 08/23/12 00:29 -0500, Otis L. Surratt, Jr. wrote:
>> Dan,
>>=20
>> Can you provide a link to support this?
>> If this is true, I wonder how this will work.
>>=20
>> Otis
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan White [mailto:dwhite@olp.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:24 AM
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: 172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated
>>=20
>> 172.0.0.0-172.15.255.255 was allocated on 2012-08-20 to AT&T Internet
>> Services.
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> --=20
> Dan White
