{"id":100001,"date":"2025-10-29T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/starlink-tells-the-world-it-has-over-150-sextillion-ipv6s-the-register\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T06:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:44:29","slug":"starlink-tells-the-world-it-has-over-150-sextillion-ipv6s-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/starlink-tells-the-world-it-has-over-150-sextillion-ipv6s-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink tells the world it has over 150 sextillion IPv6s \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Internetworking wonks have investigated Starlink\u2019s use of IP addresses and located some attention-grabbing info.<\/p>\n

Web infrastructure analyst Doug Madory on Wednesday used the Web Society\u2019s Pulse blog<\/a> to share his evaluation of the IP addresses Starlink lists in its IP geolocation file, the format community operators use to self-report the place they use the IP addresses they maintain.<\/p>\n

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Huawei handed 2,596,148,429,267,413,
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814,265,248,164,610,048 IPv6 addresses<\/h2>\n

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Madory famous latest adjustments to Starlink\u2019s file, which through the years has described an rising amount of IP deal with holdings.<\/p>\n

In accordance with his evaluation, in April 2022 Starlink\u2019s geolocation file talked about 592 \/24 IPv4 blocks \u2013 every of which covers 256 IP addresses. As of July, Elon Musk\u2019s area ISP had 1,379 \/24s, plus a whole bunch of smaller blocks, and subsequently over 350,000 IPv4 addresses to play with.<\/p>\n

Its IPv6 holdings are, as you’ll anticipate, vastly bigger.<\/p>\n

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