[arin-discuss] Facebook /20, Google /16

[Randy Carpenter]

First of all, where are you seeing that?  A searched shows Google with an IPv6 allocation /32, and Facebook with a /40.  Both seem reasonable considering their size.

Unless you are talking about IPv4, in which case both of them have much more than just a /20 and /16 respectively, and are likewise pretty sensible allocations, IMO.

Considering Google has in the neighborhood of a million servers (or more), do you expect them do only use a /24 or something?

A /8 that was issued to an entity in the '80s, and is no longer used at all is a much bigger waste. It is all moot because of IPv6, of course.

-Randy

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| Randy Carpenter
| Vice President, IT Services
| Red Hat Certified Engineer
| First Network Group, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
> Anyone have any idea why Facebook would have a full /20 assigned to
> them?
> Seems to me a fine example of the waste that we have out there with
> IP's.
> 
> Google is another - they own a /16. Ugh!!
> 
> Yeah, I know, we all complain about it, but come on! That just doesn't
> make
> sense.
> 
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