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

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia 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