RE: Anyone seen 172.15/16 lately?

[Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>]

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.
>
> 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

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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