They should have a new qualification - CCIE FG - (CCIE fun and games!).<p>I have seen a few highly qualified networking people do some funny things, but, this has got to be the best by far!
The upstreams had a valid route back to it, it just didnt have a valid forward route - and thank goodness because the traceroute boxes got ddosed into oblivion.
This was a trick which ONLY used 1 ip address and some borrowed PTRs. I could have used used space too, but the customers mail probably would have stopped working.
The source of the IP block is an ISP that gets a /20 at a time. Its a fact of life that unused blocks do sit around.
The sad aftermath of the story:
<a href="http://beaglenetworks.net/post/42828595476/what-i-learned-from-being-a-fleeting-internet-celeb" rel="nofollow">http://beaglenetworks.net/post/42828595476/what-i-learned-fr...</a><p>Somebody apparently found it necessary to DDOS this harmless internet curiosity so it does not exist anymore. A reminder that people can be wonderful, and people can be just evil, I guess.
that's really interesting. i have a non-ccie question, though:<p>if it's sending packets on a dance through a virtual network, why does that have to use public addresses? would using a private network (eg 10.0.0.0) not have worked? why not? (and is it odd for people to still have unused /24 lying around?)