[BBKing]

I'd suspect the idea of a 'punishment range' is cobblers - on a distributed network with IP ranges devolved down to areas sometimes of a few streets, this would be prohibitively hard to manage at a national level. In fact, we've been trying to move away from small disparate IP ranges over the last year or so, to reduce maintenance load. Anyone coming out with a clever idea like this would have a posse of grim-faced DHCP configuration boys baseball-batting some sense into them.