IP Routing Question

[Brian Densmore]

WHY WORRY,

   We're all going to IPv6 soon, and then we can abuse "billions and
billions" of IP addresses the way we abuse all things else computer related
... well ok abuse all things we can get our greedy fingers on. ;^)>

Bring on IPv6!

True Believer,
Brian
(in what I don't know)

> 
> Ok, in your case it's 3/32nds.  Still, if you're that concerned about
> address conservation, go bug Ford, IBM, Apple, UMKC, and all of those
> other organizations that are using their class As and Bs in a grossly
> inefficient manner.  Apple, for example, has the entire 17/8 
> block.  They
> most likely aren't using 16-some-odd million addresses internally, and
> they most certainly don't have that many addresses exposed to 
> the public
> Internet.  So why in this age of address scarcity do they 
> still have the
> 17/8 block?  Why does UMKC have the entire 134.193/16 block, 
> when it could
> more reasonably and securely get by on a couple of class Cs 
> in front of a 
> private net?
>