Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

[Ricky Beam]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:42:14 -0500, Nathan Eisenberg  
<nat...@atlasnetworks.us> wrote:
What do you mean, lit up?  You mean they're not in the routing tables  
that you get from your carriers?  I'd argue that's no indication of  
whether they're in use or not.

That's pretty much the definition of "in use".  If they don't appear in  
the global routing table, then they aren't being used.  I cannot send  
traffic to them; they cannot send traffic to me.

In my recent probe of route servers, I found 22 legacy /8's that were  
partly or completely unused.  I'm a little surprised ARIN/ICANN thinks  
it's a waste of time to even try to reclaim them.

--Ricky