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In message <[email protected]>, Jon Lewis writ es: >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. > >Such lists aren't _that_ hard to come by. It's been done. > Sure -- but if you want a *representative spread*, it takes considerably more work. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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