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RE: Anyone seen 172.15/16 lately?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Wed Sep 28 15:14:12 2005

From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <a06200708bf609356db60@[10.31.32.102]>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:10:31 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



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On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:44 -0400, Edward Lewis wrote:
> At 14:35 -0400 9/28/05, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> >Isn't 172.15/16 legacy Sun example space pre 1918? It's
> >all over CCO and Sunsolve in examples and defaults.
>=20
> I poked some more and the LACNIC server says it is unallocated.  That=20
> was the most straightforward answer of the bunch.
>=20
> It's an interesting exercise to see what the 5 RIRs return and what=20
> IANA doesn't. ;)
>=20
> ARIN - "no records found"
> APNIC - ' 172.0.0.0 is not allocated to APNIC' but lists CC of AU

APNIC is based in Australia.

> AFRINIC - '0/0', CC of EU

The CC of EU, because RIPE is based in the EU, and AFRINIC is using RIPE
software, most likely initialized the same way the RIPEdb is.

> LACNIC - "unallocated"
> RIPE - pretty much the same answer as AfriNIC

See above.

> IANA - doesn't query for numbers

Thus all nicely return "Unknown", which is consistent.

Greets,
 Jeroen


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