> There are sizable chunks that are fairly quiet (un-interesting > numbers, luck of the draw, etc). Given that its mostly > mis-configurations, laziness, ignorance, or poor planning... I suspect > the worst ranges will need to be sacrificed, and the remaining 80-90% > of the space used for legitimate allocations. Unfortunately, anyone > who accepts allocations in 1.x will need to be aware that they will > have a slightly lower quality address-space. Accepting 1.1.1.0/24, > for example, will land you with a continuous 50mbps of junk... > seemingly forever... and a respectable chance that some percentage of > the net will never reach you, due to their own misconfigurations.
Practical solution: Move YouTube to 1.1.1.1, Google to 1.1.1.2, Yahoo! to 1.1.1.3, Facebook to 1.1.1.4, etc. Maybe someone at YouTube was actually testing that strategy ;-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
