On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Brian Dickson <Brian.Dickson@concertia.com> wrote:
I think it would certainly be useful, both diagnostically and operationally, for IANA and the RIR's to *actually announce* the unused space, and run either or both of tar-pits and honey-pots on those, for just such a reason - to gauge problems that might exist on "unused" space, *before* the space is assigned.
$ whois -h whois.apnic.net 1.1.1.1 % [whois.apnic.net node-1] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 1.1.1.0 - 1.1.1.255 netname: Debogon-prefix descr: APNIC Debogon Project descr: APNIC Pty Ltd country: AU admin-c: AP16-AP tech-c: AP16-AP mnt-by: APNIC-HM mnt-routes: MAINT-APNIC-DEBOGON (Similar things exist for 1.1.2.0/24 and several others) I'm not seeing them announced yet, but it's only a matter of time. Scott.