[CLUE-Tech] Buying an IP.

[Jim Ockers]

Dave:

Visit www.arin.net.  They have forms and a fee schedule for getting
your own allocated block of IP addresses.  You need to be able to
justify the IP address space (usage) before they'll assign it to you.

> Anyone know how to own your own IP address, or block of addresses?  I 
> overheard someone say that with IPv6 you can't do this and that he owned 
> his own IPv4 address.
> 
> My office seems to do this because when we switch ISPs we keep our 
> addresses (well, we're federal government and we have a decent number of 
> /24 blocks so that doesn't mean anything for individuals).

Due to the size of the global routing table ARIN no longer gives out
/24 blocks.  The only way you can get a /24 anymore is to get it from
someone who already has it, or from someone who has a larger block
and can allocate a portion of it to you.

Hope this helps,
Jim

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Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
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