North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [afnog] ARIN to allocate from 74/8 & 75/8
>> this has probably already been thought-out, but outbound reachability >> 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 >> and statistical reliability. presumably that is coming and just >> hasn't been discussed or carried out yet. > 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. as i said privately to someone, a few problems o the scale of destinations is far to large. o how are you to know what is an important host inside of a complex enterprise? the granularity of routing/filtering within sites is not externally visible. o many of a large complex enterprise's sources from which it may be desirable to test may be in 1918 space. o the pingees may not like being pinged. the goal here was for isps and enterprises who want to be good citizens to be able to test. randy
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