Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 21:54:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:20 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > > When ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers or one of its clients, > > or any other IANA RIR) assigns a /8, or /16 number and registers a

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-08 Thread Björn Persson
Chris Tyler wrote: > http://xkcd.com/195/ provides an interesting perspective :-) Yes, although it's quickly becoming outdated. For example, in an announcement in February, ICANN mentioned that "IANA allocated more than one /8 (16m IPv4 addresses) per month in 2007 and the rate of allocation is

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread William Case
Hi Chris; On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 00:24 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > William Case wrote: > > http://xkcd.com/195/ provides an interesting perspective :-) > > -Chris > Actually, Chris, it does provide an interesting perspective. I wonder how accurate it is. It explains far m

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Tyler
Ed Greshko wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > Yes. I have used whois or jwhois. I guess just by looking at > > 64.71.255.198 I can't tell much, but have to use whois to find out > more. > > I was wondering if say, all Broadcast companies are grouped as > > 64.70.xxx.xxx to 64.90.xxx.xxx or some

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ?? From: William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: For users of Fedora Date: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:48:15 PM Hi Patrick; On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wr

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread William Case
Hi Ed; Just an off topic comment. On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 10:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > Yes. I have used whois or jwhois. I guess just by looking at > > 64.71.255.198 I can't tell much, but have to use whois to find out more. > > I was wondering if say, all Broadcast

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread William Case
Hi Patrick; On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:20 -0400, William Case wrote: [snip] > Some policy is documented at http://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html for > example, but in general you can't look at a random IP number and tell > what it stands

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread Ed Greshko
William Case wrote: Yes. I have used whois or jwhois. I guess just by looking at 64.71.255.198 I can't tell much, but have to use whois to find out more. I was wondering if say, all Broadcast companies are grouped as 64.70.xxx.xxx to 64.90.xxx.xxx or some such scheme -- but I guess not. Not muc

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread William Case
Thanks Ed; On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 09:23 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > My question is quite narrow. I am not looking for generalized > > explanations of IPv4. > Use "whois" to glean information... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] winXPPro-EN]$ whois 64.71.255.198 > [Queryi

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:20 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > My question is quite narrow. I am not looking for generalized > explanations of IPv4. > > When ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers or one of its clients, > or any other IANA RIR) assigns a /8, or /16 number and registers

Re: The assignment of numerical addresses for Domain Names ??

2008-08-07 Thread Ed Greshko
William Case wrote: Hi; My question is quite narrow. I am not looking for generalized explanations of IPv4. When ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers or one of its clients, or any other IANA RIR) assigns a /8, or /16 number and registers a new domain name is there any rules, policy