Zoom buys two new IPv4 /16 blocks in a week

Zoom buys two new IPv4 /16 blocks in a week(twitter.com)

27 points by bgpdude 5 years ago | 5 comments

zamadatix 5 years ago |

What on Earth do they want so many public IPs for though? Nothing about conferencing should require many external IPs, certainly not 2 blocks of 65k in a week.

zinekeller 5 years ago | |

I would want to say that IPv6 works, but as someone who manages an on-prem stack with workers that has dual-stack internet, surprisingly there are much more demand on IPv4 than IPv6 even though I've expected than reverse. Long-term connectivity are also preferred on IPv4 by a factor of around 7 times. I guess that the equipment that the ISP deployed handles IPv4 much better than IPv6 (which is telling of the state of IPv6).

zamadatix 5 years ago | | |

I get why IPv6 only isn't an option I'm curious what about delivering conference services requires an additional 128k IPv4 addresses on top of the 128k+ they already had. Even ignoring terminating the HTTPS on a load balancing proxy via SNI I'm not sure what requires so many public IPs.

I feel like there is a service offering of there's I'm missing - usually you only need this many IPs when you're reselling hosted services.

foton1981 5 years ago |

Its like bitcoin investment. There won't be any more IPv4 :)