[138438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why hp bladeserver chassis have a sudden interest in thailand.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Mar 7 23:48:13 2011
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:47:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D75B373.2040506@bogus.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Jaeggli" <joelja@bogus.com>
> http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1299558177753+28353475&threadId=1471451
>
> As a potentially cautionary tale for the squatting on unused pieces of
> address space either in your network or applications.
>
> drive slow (and filter 22 outgoing to 49.48.46.49 until you get new
> firmware)
(HP Blades apparently depended on rDNS for 49.48/16 failing hard, which
stopped happening when the block was allocated)
Hey, isn't this what I was talking about a week or two ago: applications
depending on DNS not lying to them about whether things actually exist or
not? (Ok, it's a *bit* sideways, but not much...)
Cheers,
-- jra
