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.
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