[121592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Fri Jan 22 16:20:11 2010
In-Reply-To: <21D41A38B8859B4A97B1AE2313922B8A821FC1C30F@concertiabl02.concertia.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:19:28 -0800
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Brian Dickson
<Brian.Dickson@concertia.com> wrote:
> I think it would certainly be useful, both diagnostically and operationally,
> for IANA and the RIR's to *actually announce* the unused space, and run either or
> both of tar-pits and honey-pots on those, for just such a reason - to gauge problems
> that might exist on "unused" space, *before* the space is assigned.
>
> And, it'd be nice if there were a check-box for "I volunteer for the pain".
> In the movies, where something bad can happen and they draw straws, it is almost
> always drawing straws from among volunteers.
*heh* And there's always going to be a set of normally-outbound-heavy networks
that would *love* to get more inbound traffic by hosting honeypots for tainted
networks...so there's one set of hands ready and waiting to shoot up the
minute you need volunteers for your tar-pits and honey-pots.
Matt
