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Re: [urgent assistance] 198.32.0.0/16 - Disappeared...

  • From: Fergie
  • Date: Mon May 14 00:06:40 2007

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- -- Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm not sure that 198.32.0.0/16 was ever advertised. EP.NET runs a  
registry for exchange points and other people that Bill feels like  
helping out and assigns from that number range; since the /16 covers  
many varied applications and organisations all over the planet, it  
seems unlikely that a /16 would do anything useful.
>
>I have no problems reaching FLAG.EP.NET (198.32.4.13), DOT.EP.NET  
(198.32.2.10), both of which live in subnets numbered from  
198.32.0.0/16 and administered by EP.NET directly.
>

Hi Joe,

Yes, I'm aware that 198.32.0.0/16 is a bunch of swampy /24s, but
reachability to name servers at ep.net seems to be available again:

route-views.isc.routeviews.org> sho ip bgp 198.32.4.13
BGP routing table entry for 198.32.4.0/24
Paths: (9 available, best #9, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
  Not advertised to any peer
  6079 3356 1239 4555
    198.32.176.126 from 198.32.176.126 (207.172.6.3)
      Origin IGP, metric 1, localpref 100, valid, external
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:59 2007

  14361 7385 1239 4555
    198.32.176.10 from 198.32.176.10 (66.36.224.11)
      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:58 2007

  174 1239 4555
    198.32.176.131 from 198.32.176.131 (154.54.0.8)
      Origin IGP, metric 2000, localpref 100, valid, external
      Community: 174:21000 174:22013
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:57 2007

  2497 1239 4555
    198.32.176.24 from 198.32.176.24 (216.98.96.13)
      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:52 2007

  4513 3356 1239 4555
    198.32.176.48 from 198.32.176.48 (209.10.12.156)
      Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:18 2007

  1280 174 1239 4555
    198.32.176.3 from 198.32.176.3 (149.20.65.193)
      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
      Community: 1280:380
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:11 2007

  3557 1280 174 1239 4555
    198.32.176.4 from 198.32.176.4 (192.5.4.246)
      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
      Community: 3557:380
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:08 2007

  2914 1239 4555
    198.32.176.14 from 198.32.176.14 (129.250.0.2)
      Origin IGP, metric 5, localpref 100, valid, external
      Community: 2914:420 2914:2000 2914:3000 65504:1239
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:23 2007

  7575 1239 4555
    198.32.176.177 from 198.32.176.177 (202.158.192.19)
      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external, best
      Community: 7575:1003 7575:2019 7575:6003
      Last update: Sun May 13 22:03:11 2007

route-views.isc.routeviews.org>


So things are back to nromal (for your definition of 'normal')...

Cheers,

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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