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Re: Whois 172/12

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Ryu)
Sun Jan 15 10:44:17 2012

In-Reply-To: <4f12ccbd.84c6e00a.78a9.19a3SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:43:24 -0600
From: Alex Ryu <r.hyunseog@ieee.org>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Similar to 1.0.0.0/8 case, which was allocated to APNIC last year or so...


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:47 AM,  <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 06:36:12AM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>> > From nanog-bounces+bonomi=3Dmail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org =A0Sun Jan 15 =
02:02:00 2012
>> > Subject: Re: Whois 172/12
>> > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
>> > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:58:11 -0500
>> > To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
>> >
>> > Read RFC1918.
>> >
>> > Likely a machine on his local network (i.e. behind the same NAT box) i=
s hitting him.
>>
>>
>> Patrick,
>> =A0 I'v read RFC-1918. =A0 I cannot find *any* reference to =A0172.0/12,=
 as the OP
>> was asking about. =A0172.16/12, yes. but not 172.0/12. =A0Can you please=
 clarify
>> your advice?
>>
>> ZZ
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0so as a stylistic point, =A0 172/12 =A0is supposed to equa=
l 172.0.0.0/12?
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0if memory serves, back in the day, there were records of a=
llocations in this space,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0pre-ARIN. When RFC 1918 was settled on, there were some fo=
lks blocking 172.0.0.0/8
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0so there was talk of relocating those folks into other spa=
ce.
>
> /bill
>


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