Given micro services and VM architectures these days, it’s not even difficult to imagine a company as large as Ali Baba burning through more than 17 milllion hosts.
Owen > On Dec 10, 2023, at 00:08, Christopher Hawker <ch...@thesysadmin.au> wrote: > > Starting to digress here for a minute... > > How big would a network need to get, in order to come close to exhausing > RFC1918 address space? There are a total of 17,891,328 IP addresses between > the 10/8 prefix, 172.16/12 space and 192.168/16 space. If one was to allocate > 10 addresses to each host, that means it would require 1,789,132 hosts to > exhaust the space. > > - Christopher H. > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 18:45, Sabri Berisha <sa...@cluecentral.net > <mailto:sa...@cluecentral.net>> wrote: >> ----- On Dec 9, 2023, at 9:55 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG nanog@nanog.org >> <mailto:nanog@nanog.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> > Location: http://33.3.37.57/ >> >> > But why would AliExpress be redirecting to DDN space? Is this legitimate? >> > Ali >> > hoping to get away with squatting, or something else? >> >> Not very long ago I worked for a well-known e-commerce platform where we >> nearly >> ran out of RFC1918 space. We seriously considered using what was then >> un-advertised DOD space to supplement RFC1918 space inside our data centers. >> >> Perhaps AliExpress did get to that level of desperateness? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Sabri
