arin Class A addresses? CIDR?

[Kevin Darcy]

Yup, you're right. I had almost forgotten all of that classful stuff, but now
you're bringing it all back again
:-)

The important thing I was trying to get across is that it's a /24, not a /8...


- Kevin

devin at thecabal.org wrote:

> On 31 Aug 2000 14:45:07 -0700, Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>
> > 64.209.178/24 isn't a "Class A", it's a "Class C".
>
> Technically, no, it's a /24 subnet of a Class A.
>
> Classfulness is determined by the most significant bits of the first
> octet of the IP address as well as the size of the block. :)
>
> That's why all Class As only ever come from the 1-127 range, and Class
> Bs come from the 128-191 range.
>
> --
> Devin L. Ganger <dlganger at earthlink.net>
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