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 | +---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+

Just taking the first two ranges... route-server>sho ip bgp 81.29.160.0 % Network not in table

nmap -sP 82.148.96.0/24 Nmap finished: 256 IP addresses (71 hosts up)

For example: Host dialpop01-7300-itn.ispnoc.qa (82.148.96.12) appears to be up.

tcptraceroute 82.148.96.12 ... 5 sl-gw1-prl-8-0-1.sprintlink.net (144.223.63.169) ... 11 sl-bb20-nyc-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.13) ... 14 sl-gw23-lon-15-0.sprintlink.net (213.206.128.63) 212.552 ms 15 82.195.188.22 (82.195.188.22) 212.058 ms 16 so-0-0-0.0.cjr03.alx001.flagtel.com (62.216.129.206) 282.853 ms 17 ge-3-2-0.0.cjr01.alx001.flagtel.com (62.216.134.30) 283.292 ms 18 80.77.1.182 (80.77.1.182) 359.834 ms ... 20 89.211.0.74 (89.211.0.74) 359.881 ms 21 dialpop01-7300-itn.ispnoc.qa (82.148.96.12) [closed] 325.716 ms

Deep inspection ;-) would probably show this to not be completely true... scott