A Beginner's Guide to Acquiring Your Own ASN and IP Address
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@Anim_Mouse
3h ago· 3 min readen
Summary
A beginner-friendly guide documenting the author's personal journey to acquire their own Autonomous System Number (ASN) and IP address. The article explains why ordinary individuals typically can't own IP addresses (unlike domain names), as most are held by large businesses and governments. The author notes a lack of comprehensive BGP tutorials and provides a list of their own tutorials to fill that gap.
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Hacker NewsA Beginner's Guide to Acquiring Your Own ASN and IP Addressanimmouse.comKey quotes
· 4 pulledIf an ordinary people like me can buy domain names, then what about owning an IP address?
Why can't ordinary people buy an IP address just like domain names?
Most of the IP address that exist today are owned by the big business and big government.
There are still no concrete tutorials on how to set up BGP from the ground up, so I created my own.
A comprehensive beginners guide about getting your own ASN and own IP address
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