He's using much more than a /27
Each hop is using a /30. There's 47 useless hops in the mix before reaching the end.
That's 188 IP addresses just wasted. Much, much more than a /27. In fact that's 6 times the waste of a /27.
Each hop is using a /30. There's 47 useless hops in the mix before reaching the end.
That's 188 IP addresses just wasted. Much, much more than a /27. In fact that's 6 times the waste of a /27.
Presumably if Epik runs out of IP space in their /20, they'll just shut this down. It's not like some other company could use that /24.
Again, if ARIN/IANA really wanted to reclaim "wasted" space, they'd be looking at the holders of big blocks like /8-16, and asking them to justify usage, not one random /24 which is ultimately insignificant.
It's reasons like this why people now have to fill out forms justifying the need for additional IPv4 blocks.
Epik already went to ARIN, said "we need a /20 to meet our IPv4 needs", filled out the paperwork to justify the allocation, and ARIN said "yes". Out of those 16 /24's, they have one that doesn't have any hosts on it at the moment, so they let him play with it.
The only people this MIGHT be hurting is Epik, if they need to justify getting more space from ARIN at some point. For the other millions of people on the Internet: it's awesome. Lighten up and enjoy it.
(edit: grammar)