[139694] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Easily confused...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Sat Apr 16 21:06:22 2011
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: "Brielle Bruns" <bruns@2mbit.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:06:20 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Brielle Bruns wrote:
> On 4/16/11 6:03 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks. What concerned me was the first hop...22ms. is ~ the distance
>> from Maui to Oahu, but why the Chinese IP? Cruel joke?
>> I"m using Hawaiian Telcom's ADSL service and that first hop has always
>> been their gateway IP address.
>> Another TCP trace shows the first hop as 123.74.62.128...another CN
>> address.
>
>
> I'm assuming your provider's network engineers (stupidly) assumed
> 123.x.x.x was a good idea for use in a private setup because it hadn't
> been assigned from the global pool (yet).
>
> Wouldn't be the first provider or service to not use proper RFC assigned
> private IP space for their internal networking setup.
Apologies...missed operative word 'internal'.<s>
They are testing IPTV on Oahu in preperation for roll-out, so maybe they renumbered in order to more easily identify the
segments.(?)
