For those who want to try it at home:

ping 33333333
ping 55555555

I am sorry, two random Internet users in Korea and Germany, your IP addresses are simply special.

      • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works
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        A few years ago my old university finally went with NAT instead of handing out public IPs to all servers, workstations and random wifi clients. (Yes, you got a public IP on the wifi. Behind a firewall, but still public.) I think they have a /16 and a few extra /24s in total.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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          3 hours ago

          Honestly there isn’t much reason to go with NAT unless you are looking to lease/sell IPs

          The sad part is that almost no universities do IPv6