Global Internet

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It pays to spend a few minutes of your digital life to learn a little bit about organisations that are in charge of managing the basic underlying identities of the Internet - the IP networks and addresses.

All devices on the internet rely on them to find out who is where, so data can be delivered the the right party.

Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)

The internet identities of whole world is handled by only 5 organisations.

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  1. https://afrinic.net/
  2. https://www.apnic.net
  3. https://www.arin.net/
  4. https://www.lacnic.net/
  5. https://www.ripe.net/

Global Organisations

  1. https://www.iana.org/
  2. https://www.nro.net/
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Autonomous System Number

Internet's core data traffic routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), uses Autonomous System Number to identity different networks.

There are currently about 92000 organisations with ASN, about 77000 have only one ASN, 88.io is one of the remaining about 15000 organisations that have more than one ASN.

A ranking of global ASN is available here:
https://asrank.caida.org/

Your ASN

To find out the Autonomous System Number of your current IP address, simple click on
https://id.88.io/ip/

Currently 88.io is using the following Autonomous System Number range:

  1. AS133758 - Public ASN for normal unicast traffic
  2. AS133175 - Public ASN for anycast traffic
  3. AS65000 - Private ASN for development
  4. AS65001 - Private ASN for aunsw mesh

There is an official range of ASN reserved for Private Use:

  • 16-bit: AS64512 - AS65534
  • 32-bit: AS4200000000 - AS4294967294

Currently 88.io has reserved:

They are assigned from the lowest number towards the highest number on a first come first served basis.

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays an important role in the functioning of Virtual Private Mesh.

References:

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IP Address

IP Spoofing

IP addresses can be spoofed for DoS attack, to help identify networks that do not perform source address filtering, CAIDA Spoofer can be ran on all our mesh nodes if the owner enables it.