On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:29:55PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:20:28AM +0900, Randy Bush > wrote: > > of course, we're sorry we set off folk's broken alarm systems :-) [ > > sense of humor required, leo ] > > Ah, I get the smiley this time. That's the indication you're not > serious about the sentence you just wrote! Ah ha! So you're not > sorry you've wasted a whole bunch of people's time today. > > You really should make some friends Randy. You know, the type of > people who might have a network, and an ASN, and be ok with you > injecting their ASN in wierd places and reporting back to you what > happens. You might even be able to then get them to provide data > on what sensors alerted, why they alerted, and other useful things. > That seems both a lot more useful and respectful than dragging > random third parties into your research project by force and having > them turn to 10,000 of their closest friends to figure out what's > going on. > > And no, I don't have a sense of humor about it. 44 messages of > (mostly bad) haiku, and another 42 messages about the collateral > damage of Randy's research project and how it pulls network engineers > out of funerals. Even at only 10 seconds per message to see there > is no operationally useful content that's 14 minutes of my life > wasted today I will never get back. > > The S/N ratio of the list day has been 0. I guess the up side is that > is only down slightly from normal. > > -- > Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
there is some indication that this prefix was assigned for a specific experiment, the experiment ran, results published, and then the prefix was not properly reclaimed... and so was reused for something else. sounds like a poster child for SIDR. --bill