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Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8

  • From: Adrian Chadd
  • Date: Sat Apr 14 05:12:02 2007 
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007, william(at)elan.net wrote:

> If that is the case and they started using it in the days of J Postel
> with his permission, then its not a bogon. Conflicting information at
> ARIN and especially that their info was updated in 2006 leads me to 
> believe that's the case. Add to it that I have several copies of old
> DoD hosts table and they all list it as "EDN-TEMP", but what it refers
> to and if the block should or should not still be in use I don't know.
> 
> Unfortunately all of this does not mean you should allow (or deny) traffic 
> from 7.0.0.0/8, but it also does not mean that if you do see any traffic 
> that its necessarily unauthorized.

.. you can always check the RIPE BGP announcement history to see whether
its been announced forever or is a recent addition, no? Are they still
running that project?


Adrian