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On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:08:00 -0400 David Charlap <[email protected]> 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. This seems like an unwise overlaying of the IANA-RESERVED space to me. Why can't IANA allocate itself a /20 (or whatever it needs) and keep IANA-RESERVED space for unallocated addresses (plus maybe experimental uses that can and should be filtered at every border). Regards Marshall Eubanks that > > 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 >
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