Anyone seen 172.15/16 lately?

Wed Sep 28 19:21:38 UTC 2005

I checked my historic files from 1991, 1997 and 1999 and don't see this 
block being allocated to anyone (don't have much data from 1991 - 1997 
unfortunetly...). My guess is that this /16 was never allocated.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, 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.
>
> I poked some more and the LACNIC server says it is unallocated.  That was the 
> most straightforward answer of the bunch.
>
> It's an interesting exercise to see what the 5 RIRs return and what IANA 
> doesn't. ;)
>
> ARIN - "no records found"
> APNIC - ' 172.0.0.0 is not allocated to APNIC' but lists CC of AU
> AFRINIC - '0/0', CC of EU
> LACNIC - "unallocated"
> RIPE - pretty much the same answer as AfriNIC
> IANA - doesn't query for numbers
>
> Didn't see a WhoIs box on the NRO site.
>

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