A website hosted on the 1.0.0.0/8 subnet, somewhere on the Internet?

Posted by Dave Markle on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Dave Markle
Published on 2011-02-18T21:25:00Z Indexed on 2011/02/20 15:26 UTC
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Background

I'm attempting to demonstrate, using a real-world example, of why someone would not want to configure their internal network on the 1.0.0.0/8 subnet. Obviously it's because this is not designated as private address space.

As of 2010, ARIN has apparently allocated 1.0.0.0/8 to APNIC (the Asia-Pacific NIC), who seems to have begun assigning addresses in that subnet, though not in 1.1.0.0/16, 1.0.0.0/16, and others (because these addresses are so polluted by bad network configurations all around the Internet).

My Question

My question is this: I'd like to find a website that responds on this subnet somewhere and use it as a counter-example, demonstrating to a non-technical user its inaccessibility from an internal network configured on 1.0.0.0/8. Other than writing a program to sniff all ~16 million hosts, looking for a response on port 80, does anyone know of a directory I can use, or even better yet, does anyone know of a site that's configured on this subnet?

WHOIS seems to be too general of a search for me at this point...

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