[afnog] ARIN to allocate from 74/8 & 75/8

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Wed Sep 21 02:51:17 UTC 2005


In message <20050921014346.GS5285 at renesys.com>, Todd Underwood writes:

>this has probably already been thought-out, but outbound reachability
>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
>and statistical reliability.  presumably that is coming and just
>hasn't been discussed or carried out yet.

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.  
Furthermore, the pinging really should be done from an actual use of 
the net, and not just from, say, the RIR that allocated the block.  
(Pinging a single address in new blocks would have that requirement, 
too, of course.)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb





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