...and it's not like ARIN, etc., does not announce to the Internet community when it allocates from address space which may have previously been listed in various operational places as "bogon" or "unalloacted" -- they do. I recall seeing similar announcements on the list from time to time, suggesting due diligence on ARIN's behalf to notifying people to modify their filtering. *plonk* Scanning the archives, an example: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2004-01/msg00374.html - ferg -- Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote: This hurts Ciscos reputation that they are causing pockets of the internet to not work. Next subnets to get allocated will increase the size of those pockets and so on. Then the internet will become less reliable as an end-to-end transport medium, hurting *everyone*. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net