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 <chris@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 <sabri@cluecentral.net <mailto:sabri@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