[84706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [afnog] ARIN to allocate from 74/8 & 75/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Sep 21 00:36:49 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:11:44 EDT."
<Pine.LNX.4.61.0509210006491.10349@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:36:15 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509210006491.10349@soloth.lewis.org>, Jon Lewis writ
es:
>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>>> testing *from* the address block to a representative spread of
>>> addressing makes much more sense and would be much more indicative of
>>> forwarding (versus routing) problems, and would do so with some method
>>
>> It's a good idea, but of course that requires someone in the allocated
>> block to have a list of addresses to ping, all over the net.
>
>Such lists aren't _that_ hard to come by. It's been done.
>
Sure -- but if you want a *representative spread*, it takes
considerably more work.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
