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Re: What is up with 170.36.0.0/16

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Thu Jun 14 11:34:40 2001

Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:34:04 -0400
To: Erik Antelman <erik@nombas.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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HAve youtried doing a BGP lookup for the MX's IP, rather than the whole 
/16? That will return the smallest aggregate that includes the target 
IP(s). It's entirely possible that the block is not in the table as a /16, 
but as a set of sub-aggregates.

-Chris

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:28:36AM -0400, Erik Antelman wrote:
> 
> Is someone renumbering around this area?
> My motivation is to understand the mechanisms and techniques \
> by which a non-privelaged user (ie someone without login access to a BGP fed
> router)
> would diagnose (characterize, locate, identify, etc..) failure to reach a
> large corporations
> mail servers (1/2 of the MX servers for fleet.com)
> 
> RADB has nothing on this, a New York QWEST looking glass says:
> Query: bgp
> IP address: 170.36.73.11
> Location: New York
> Timeout: 20 seconds
> 
> % Network not in table
> 
> What's up?
> 
> 
> 
> 

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