MIT Sells Off IPv4 Addresses

[eaadams]

Ok, this is networking related but is just news. Once upon a time IPv4 addresses weren't yours to on-sell, but not any more it seems. They claim that they're selling theses blocks to help finance their new IPv6 network - meanwhile someone else can postpone their upgrade by using unwanted MIT Iv4 addresses ...

https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2017/05/mit-goes-on-ipv4-selling-spree/

Aubrey

[deanwebb]

Now eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeverybody has to update their geolocation apps, since those IPs aren't MIT no more...

[LynK]

You wonder why we ran out of IPv4. What does MIT need to do with 3,251,250 PUBLIC IPv4 addresses?

[deanwebb]

You wonder why we ran out of IPv4. What does MIT need to do with 3,251,250 PUBLIC IPv4 addresses?

Once upon a time, those were also the private addresses before RFC 1918 came out.

But... even then...

You'd think that a place like MIT with 25,000 students and staff would need, at most, 100,000 IP addresses, figuring a generous 4:1 address to person ratio, which is in excess of Gartner's 3:1/2.5:1 ratio for today, and they got the addresses way back when, even before there were virtual servers everywhere... even so, 100K ought to be good enough, right? They'd take just what they needed and no more?



BUT NOOOOOOOOOO THEY GOTTA HOG UP OVER *THREE MILLION* OF THOSE BAD BOYS BACK WHEN EVERYONE NEEDED A PUBLIC IP ADDRESS FOR ANY NETWORK ACCESS, LET ALONE USING THE INTERNET!!!

[LynK]

@dean

furthers my argument that there will be no need for enterprises to migrate to IPv6. Once federal/state are forcibly moved, the plethora of IPv4 will sustain for quite some time.

[deanwebb]

@dean

furthers my argument that there will be no need for enterprises to migrate to IPv6. Once federal/state are forcibly moved, the plethora of IPv4 will sustain for quite some time.

Except in the cell phone space, I think IPv6 is best there... but all those IoT devices, what are we gonna do about them? Especially if they use IPv6 on a home network that has an old router that doesn't know what to do with IPv6 traffic beyond "permit any any all"?