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Re: APNIC description: "unknown"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jan 31 22:04:37 2011

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <2bf186b31af8bde4178750bcc83f1f5a@fakmoymozg.ru>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:00:25 -0800
To: Vovan <vovan@fakmoymozg.ru>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jan 31, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Vovan wrote:

> Hello,
>=20
> sorry for possibly trite question, but what does this ">>UNKNOWN<<" =
mean? e.g.:
>=20
> > Network            Origin AS  Description
> > 41.222.79.0/24       36938     >>UNKNOWN<<
>=20
> quote from: http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-add-IANA
>=20
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> Vladimir

It's an unallocated address being advertised by an unallocated AS =
number.

Pretty hard to identify a contact for such a route, no?

Owen



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