[93938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NATting a whole country?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Jan 3 18:57:37 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070103233126.0054E765FDE@berkshire.machshav.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:53:23 +0100
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4-jan-2007, at 0:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> According to
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-
> Block.html
> all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address.
I wonder what they use the other 241663 addresses for.
+---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+
| rir | country | type | descr | num |
+---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+
| ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 81.29.160.0 | 4096 |
| ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 82.148.96.0 | 8192 |
| ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 86.36.0.0 | 131072 |
| ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 86.62.192.0 | 16384 |
| ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 89.211.0.0 | 65536 |
| ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 212.77.192.0 | 8192 |
| ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 213.130.96.0 | 8192 |
| ripencc | QA | ipv6 | 2001:1a10:: | 32 |
+---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+
They have 0.4 addresses per person in Qatar, which isn't all that
bad: Italy has 0.33. (Caveats about EU labeled address space etc apply.)
