But that doesn't answer the question: (;))
NetRange: 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
CIDR: 172.16.0.0/12
NetName: IANA-BBLK-RESERVEDThat's the reserved range, he's looking for the /16 "before" that.
Isn't 172.15/16 legacy Sun example space pre 1918? It's
all over CCO and Sunsolve in examples and defaults.
-M<
I poked some more and the LACNIC server says it is unallocated. That was the most straightforward answer of the bunch.
It's an interesting exercise to see what the 5 RIRs return and what IANA doesn't. 
ARIN - "no records found"
APNIC - ' 172.0.0.0 is not allocated to APNIC' but lists CC of AU
AFRINIC - '0/0', CC of EU
LACNIC - "unallocated"
RIPE - pretty much the same answer as AfriNIC
IANA - doesn't query for numbers
Didn't see a WhoIs box on the NRO site.
>Isn't 172.15/16 legacy Sun example space pre 1918? It's
>all over CCO and Sunsolve in examples and defaults.I poked some more and the LACNIC server says it is unallocated. That
was the most straightforward answer of the bunch.It's an interesting exercise to see what the 5 RIRs return and what
IANA doesn't.ARIN - "no records found"
APNIC - ' 172.0.0.0 is not allocated to APNIC' but lists CC of AU
APNIC is based in Australia.
AFRINIC - '0/0', CC of EU
The CC of EU, because RIPE is based in the EU, and AFRINIC is using RIPE
software, most likely initialized the same way the RIPEdb is.
LACNIC - "unallocated"
RIPE - pretty much the same answer as AfriNIC
See above.
IANA - doesn't query for numbers
Thus all nicely return "Unknown", which is consistent.
Greets,
Jeroen
I checked my historic files from 1991, 1997 and 1999 and don't see this block being allocated to anyone (don't have much data from 1991 - 1997 unfortunetly...). My guess is that this /16 was never allocated.
No argument about that, but they do say it in different ways. Hence a plug for the deployment of IRIS to tie the registry lookups together.
IRIS - http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/crisp-charter.html, the IETF WG developing it.
Wow that's a waste ... the heck with the examples!
