[clug] For dyndns junkies

[Bob Edwards]

On 22/08/17 15:35, Scott Ferguson via linux wrote:
>
>
> On 22/08/17 14:33, Bob Edwards via linux wrote:
>> On 22/08/17 13:40, Scott Ferguson via linux wrote:
>>> https://cloud.google.com/free/
>>>
>>> Amazon also offer a similar deal - 12 month free account.
>>> https://aws.amazon.com/free/
>>> However the Google Cloud offer (reportedly) has better performance
>>> https://bblank.thinkmo.de/network-caps-in-cloud-environments.html
>>>
>>> better than Azure also...
>>> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/?cdn=disable
>>>
>>> https://lowendbox.com/ has a good list of cheap VPS providers. Both
>>> Digital Ocean and Vultr offer VPS hosting in Australia and good deals at
>>> around $10US pm - but many people require much less than what those
>>> deals provide. So if you pool resources with trusted friends you can get
>>> a useful VPS for the price of a loaf of cheap bread per month.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>
>> With all these "free" and low-cost VPS offerings, all with static IPs,
>> it makes one wonder if the world really is running out of IPv4 address
>> space, or if it all hasn't been gobbled up by these big VPS providers...
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Bob Edwards.
>
>
> Wonder no more(?)
> [quote]
> When looking at the assigned IP blocks at IANA (Internet Assigned
> Numbers Authority), what becomes immediately clear is that the US
> Department of Defense has a significant number of large IP blocks. We
> only looked at /8 IP blocks, the largest blocks you can get, and there
> are 12 of them assigned to the US DoD and related organizations. Each /8
> block holds 16,777,214 IP addresses, so the DoD have in effect allocated
> more than 200 million IP addresses. That should hold them for a while.
>
> The closest any other corporation comes to this are Level 3
> Communications and Hewlett-Packard, with two /8 blocks each. The
> DoD-owned IP blocks together with the 26 corporations and universities
> who have their own /8 blocks hold more than 671 million IP addresses.
>
> These were all early land grabs, most of them made between 1991 and 1995.
>
> Some notables among the companies with one /8 IP block are Apple (but no
> Microsoft in sight[Note: later they bought Nortels. ScottF]), IBM,
> Halliburton and the Ford Motor Company.
> Companies and organizations with IPv4 /8 blocks from IANA Owner 	Blocks
> ~IP addresses
> US Military (Department of Defense etc.) 	12 	201 million
> Level 3 Communications, Inc. 	2 	33 million
> Hewlett-Packard 	2 	33 million
> AT&T Bell Laboratories (Alcatel-Lucent) 	1 	16 million
> AT&T Global Network Services 	1 	16 million
> Bell-Northern Research (Nortel Networks) 	1 	16 million
> Amateur Radio Digital Communications 	1 	16 million
> Apple Computer Inc. 	1 	16 million
> Cap Debis CCS (Mercedes-Benz) 	1 	16 million
> Computer Sciences Corporation 	1 	16 million
> Deparment of Social Security of UK 	1 	16 million
> E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co., Inc. 	1 	16 million
> Eli Lily and Company 	1 	16 million
> Ford Motor Company 	1 	16 million
> General Electric Company 	1 	16 million
> Halliburton Company 	1 	16 million
> IBM 	1 	16 million
> Interop Show Network 	1 	16 million
> Merck and Co., Inc. 	1 	16 million
> MERIT Computer Network 	1 	16 million
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology 	1 	16 million
> Performance Systems International (Cogent) 	1 	16 million
> Prudential Equity Group, LLC 	1 	16 million
> Société Internationale De Telecommunications Aeronautiques 	1 	16 million
> U.S. Postal Service 	1 	16 million
> UK Ministry of Defence 	1 	16 million
> Xerox Corporation 	1 	16 million
> 	40 	671 million
>
> The table doesn’t include the blocks allocated for RIRs and other
> special purposes.
>
> One thing that strikes you is the low number of ISPs on this list. This
> is most likely due to their late appearance on the internet when it was
> harder to reserve big IP blocks, forcing them to settle for smaller blocks.
>
> That the US Department of Defense has such a huge amount of the IPv4
> address space is partly due to historical reasons: They developed the
> internet in the first place (ARPANET) and have a strong vested interest
> in the evolution of the internet.
> [/quote]
> http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/02/13/where-did-all-the-ip-numbers-go-the-us-department-of-defense-has-them/
>
> Apparently ARIN don't own the IPV4 addresses:-
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/09/22/its-official-legacy-ipv4-address-block-holders-own-their-number-blocks/
>
> ...hence they are bought and sold:-
> http://www.networkworld.com/article/2228854/microsoft-subnet/microsoft-pays-nortel--7-5-million-for-ipv4-addresses.html
>
> and of course:-
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>


Thanks Scott.

As you point out, Microsoft has been "gobbling up" IPv4 address space...
(funny, 'cause in Window 3.1 days their esteemed leader saw no future
in the Internet and it's protocols...).

Bob Edwards.