NATting a whole country?

I wonder what they use the other 241663 addresses for.

+---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+
> rir | country | type | descr | num |
+---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+
> ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 81.29.160.0 | 4096 |
> ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 82.148.96.0 | 8192 |
> ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 86.36.0.0 | 131072 |
> ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 86.62.192.0 | 16384 |
> ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 89.211.0.0 | 65536 |
> ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 212.77.192.0 | 8192 |
> ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 213.130.96.0 | 8192 |
> ripencc | QA | ipv6 | 2001:1a10:: | 32 |
+---------+---------+------+--------------+--------+

Just taking the first two ranges...

route-server>sho ip bgp 81.29.160.0
% Network not in table

nmap -sP 82.148.96.0/24

Nmap finished: 256 IP addresses (71 hosts up)

For example:

Host dialpop01-7300-itn.ispnoc.qa (82.148.96.12) appears to be up.

tcptraceroute 82.148.96.12

...
5 sl-gw1-prl-8-0-1.sprintlink.net (144.223.63.169)
...
11 sl-bb20-nyc-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.13)
...
14 sl-gw23-lon-15-0.sprintlink.net (213.206.128.63) 212.552 ms
15 82.195.188.22 (82.195.188.22) 212.058 ms
16 so-0-0-0.0.cjr03.alx001.flagtel.com (62.216.129.206) 282.853 ms
17 ge-3-2-0.0.cjr01.alx001.flagtel.com (62.216.134.30) 283.292 ms
18 80.77.1.182 (80.77.1.182) 359.834 ms
...
20 89.211.0.74 (89.211.0.74) 359.881 ms
21 dialpop01-7300-itn.ispnoc.qa (82.148.96.12) [closed] 325.716 ms

Deep inspection :wink: would probably show this to not be completely true...

scott