This is a very interesting site for ip allocation overview:

http://ipindex.dragonstar.net/

Can you find your ip block and your name??

Len

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>ARIN is helping the net by being stingy with IP space.  The fact of the
>matter is there is no shortage of IPs.  They need to re-deploy  the wasted
>class A and B space that's being hoarded by the large corporations.
>
>To give you an idea how wasteful their policies are consider this.  You are
>a small ISP or corporation that has a requirement for multi-homing but ARIN
>will not assign you IP space or they assign space that's not globally
>routable due to the prefix length.  Solution?  Bi-directional NAT.  Guess
>what, bi-directional NAT requires 2 IPs for every host.  Now that's
>wasteful!
>
>-Craig
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Malcolm P. Kynoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thursday April 27, 2000 5:21 PM
>Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ARIN
>
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I used to assign a ip per host, but like you I've run into a situation with
> >Arin as well as not having enough ip's.
> >Now I've moved to a complete virtual hosting setup including NAT...
> >
> >ARIN is pretty strict about IP assignment.
> >
> >Regards,
> >        Malcolm Kynoch
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Chambers
> >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 4:50 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [IMail Forum] ARIN
> >
> >
> >
> >Has anyone ever had a problem justifying a seperate IP for virtual mail
> >hosts to ARIN?  I assign a new ip for every host. Makes life easier.  They
> >are giving me grief.
> >
> >
>
>
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