Stephen, If you can justify a /8, ARIN will allocate one to you (not that I speak for ARIN or anything, but that's how things work). Presumably Softbank BB justified the /8 APNIC allocated to them. Rgds, -drc On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
Ok, back up a second....
126/8 Jan 05 APNIC (whois.apnic.net)
inetnum: 126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255 netname: BBTEC descr: Japan Nation-wide Network of Softbank BB Corp. status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20050208
i thought the decade of giving class A's to large corporates had long since passed.. we've got some major network rollout coming up, i need an extra 16 million IPs, so can i get one?
wtf?
Steve