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title: 'Network Address Translation: an abomination and horror'
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  display_name: Otacon22
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  email: danieleiamartino@gmail.com
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author_email: danieleiamartino@gmail.com
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excerpt: IPv4 addresses are not so many. When Internet started a long time ago, 2^32
  addresses (more than 4 billion) seemed to be a lot. Today the ICANN (the USA company
  which administrate addresses and “numbers” of the Internet) had already
  completed the assignment of all IPv4 address blocks to all “regional”
  authorities of several parts [&amp;hellip<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=otacon22.com&amp;blog=326248&amp;post=408&amp;subd=otacon22&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1"
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wordpress_id: 4111
wordpress_url: http://otacon22.com/?p=408
date: '2013-01-15 08:24:25 +0000'
date_gmt: '2013-01-15 06:24:25 +0000'
categories:
- PlanetPOuL
tags: []
comments: []
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<p>IPv4 addresses are not so many. When Internet started a long time ago, 2^32 addresses (more than 4 billion) seemed to be a lot. Today the ICANN (the USA company which administrate addresses and &#8220;numbers&#8221; of the Internet) had already completed the assignment of all IPv4 address blocks to all &#8220;regional&#8221; authorities of several parts [&#038;hellip<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=otacon22.com&#038;blog=326248&%23038;post=408&%23038;subd=otacon22&%23038;ref=&%23038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /></p>