[Soekris] DNS Non-delegated local domain behind NATed firewall

[Zac Morris]

he he he, didn't mean to imply that countries got (or should get)
classes, was more or less just pointing out that a few of the original
corporate "sponsors" got class As, which is just an interesting factoid
when compared to whole countries that don't even get them. :)

No biggy, just some trivia. :-D

-Zac

der Mouse wrote:
>> Interesting factoid, Hewlett-Packard is one of the few corporations
>> that have their own Class A subnet, anything 15. is HP.  Most
>> countries don't even get a class A subnet. :-)
>>     
>
> Well, not more than 128 entities *can*, since that's all the class A
> address space there is!  (Really, 127, since one of them - 127 - is
> reserved for loopback uses.)
>
> Actually, countries don't get address space.  RIRs get address space,
> usually in blocks like a /8 or /7, which they break down and assign to
> providers (and large end users).  There is no allocation at the country
> level.  (There was a time, though, when it seemed Canada might get its
> own class A - this was before the current RIR model arose.)
>
> Unless you're talking about a country's government's network presence,
> or perhaps if there's a country where IP address assignment is
> nationalized (I know of none, but with all the countries out there
> there probably are some).
>
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