Comment by ChuckMcM

I've seen some of the papers where people look at big chunks of unused address space and watch the probes etc. It is really quite amazing. Once I screwed myself royally by accidentally turning RIP on for the upstream side of my router (connected to the cable modem) and it advertised 192.168/16 which Comcast accepted and started routing random stuff from the local exchange to my router. It was pretty funny talking to their NOC staff who was mad at me for advertising the route but I pointed out it was pretty stupid of them to accept routes like that from their edge nodes. What if I had sent them a BGP route for China, then what would they have done? (Don't try that at home kids unless you don't want to use your network for a while)