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Re: Huh? Too early for this.

  • From: Tony Li
  • Date: Thu Feb 11 00:02:23 1999 
[email protected] writes:

>    Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
> *>i2.52.228.144/32  209.83.160.97                 100      0 6347 1239 i
> 
> Wait. Looking at 2.52.228.144 in the mirror = 144.228.52.2
> 
> [[email protected] /root]# whois -h rs.arin.net 144.228
> Sprint (NET-SPRINT-INNET5)
>    Government Systems Division
>    13221 Woodland Park Road
>    Herndon, VA  22071
> 
>    Netname: SPRINTLINK
>    Netnumber: 144.228.0.0
> 
> 
> What the hell is this?


Perhaps a BGP implementation with an endianness problem.

Folks should recall that with the hordes of new high-end router vendors
coming to market (or trying to anyways ;-), there will be a variety of
interesting behaviors (again ;-).

Tony