[23036] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Huh? Too early for this.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Feb 11 00:01:05 1999
To: alex@nac.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
Date: 10 Feb 1999 20:49:34 -0800
In-Reply-To: alex@nac.net's message of 10 Feb 99 14:56:14 GMT
alex@nac.net writes:
> Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
> *>i2.52.228.144/32 209.83.160.97 100 0 6347 1239 i
>
> Wait. Looking at 2.52.228.144 in the mirror = 144.228.52.2
>
> [root@netflow /root]# whois -h rs.arin.net 144.228
> Sprint (NET-SPRINT-INNET5)
> Government Systems Division
> 13221 Woodland Park Road
> Herndon, VA 22071
>
> Netname: SPRINTLINK
> Netnumber: 144.228.0.0
>
>
> What the hell is this?
Perhaps a BGP implementation with an endianness problem.
Folks should recall that with the hordes of new high-end router vendors
coming to market (or trying to anyways ;-), there will be a variety of
interesting behaviors (again ;-).
Tony
