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Re: IRR listing of IANA-reserved, a question..

  • From: John M. Brown
  • Date: Wed Sep 04 10:27:57 2002 
They are not bogus, hence the sub-deligation, and hence a 
good reason to have a more detailed source of information.

I would suspect that this block should be "chopped" a bit to
reflect the IANA/ICANN usage.

This block was first routed on the internet via AS 226 around
late summer early fall 1999.

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:08:00AM -0400, David Charlap wrote:
> 
> John M. Brown wrote:
> > 
> > In the last 72 hours I've seen over 3GB of data hit a network
> > I play with with source IP's of IANA-RESERVED space.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, do you know that these are bogus source 
> addresses?  Some of the IANA-RESERVED block is actually valid and is 
> used by IANA's computers.
> 
> My company was blocking all of the IANA-RESERVED space for a while, 
> until we discovered that the IANA web server is using an address in that 
> space.
> 
> Note:
> 	$dig www.iana.org a
> 
> 	; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> www.iana.org a
> 	;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6
> 	;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 6, Addit: 6
> 	;; QUESTIONS:
> 	;;      www.iana.org, type = A, class = IN
> 
> 	;; ANSWERS:
> 	www.iana.org.   68055   A       192.0.34.69
> 	...
> 
> and:
> 	$whois -h whois.arin.net 192.0.34.69
> 	IANA RESERVED-192 (NET-192-0-0-0-1)
> 	                                  192.0.0.0 - 192.0.127.255
> 	ICANN
> 	c/o Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ICANN (NET-192-0-32-0-1)
> 	                                  192.0.32.0 - 192.0.47.255
> 
> > Various people have reported seeing IANA-RSERVED get announced
> > via BGP at different parts of the net.
> 
> Again, bogus addresses or legitimate IANA servers?  Not everything in 
> IANA-RESERVED is bogus.
> 
> -- David
>