On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:53:23 +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
On 4-jan-2007, at 0:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
According to http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-> Block.html all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address.
I wonder what they use the other 241663 addresses for.
+---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+ | rir | country | type | descr | num | +---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+ | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 81.29.160.0 | 4096 | | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 82.148.96.0 | 8192 | | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 86.36.0.0 | 131072 | | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 86.62.192.0 | 16384 | | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 89.211.0.0 | 65536 | | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 212.77.192.0 | 8192 | | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 213.130.96.0 | 8192 | | ripencc | QA | ipv6 | 2001:1a10:: | 32 | +---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+
They have 0.4 addresses per person in Qatar, which isn't all that bad: Italy has 0.33. (Caveats about EU labeled address space etc apply.)
Honeypots? (As I noted, there might also be a port 80 packet filter, combined with an official web proxy that can get out.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb