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Re: 39/8 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Thu Jun 20 01:23:50 2002
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: bicknell@ufp.org (Leo Bicknell)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:20:26 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020619183056.GA90479@ussenterprise.ufp.org> from "Leo Bicknell" at Jun 19, 2002 02:30:56 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
net 39 was used to validate the CIDR-style of addressing.
I was instructed to host the nameservers for the prefix
and there was an experiment to announce various fragments
of the space. You can find the experiment and its results
in the RFC archives.
Since that experiment, ARIN came into being as has ICANN.
They have apparently seen fit to move the prefix back into
reserved space, but have not "cleaned" up the DNS delegation.
You may think of this announcemnt as a "network appendix", of
little intrinsic value. You may also find that its a reasonable
way to validate your filters...
-- bill
(still waiting for the other shoe to drop...)
>
>
> In a message written on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:33:36AM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > I cant find AS4554 either and the rDNS doesnt exist in in-addr.arpa
>
> I believe this is EP.Net LLC, a Bill Manning company.
>
> > [whois.radb.net]
> > route: 39.0.0.0/8
> > descr: Exchange Point Networks
> > PO 12317
> > Marina del Rey, CA. 90295
> > US
> > origin: AS4554
> > mnt-by: MNT-EPNET
> > changed: bmanning@karoshi.com 20020401
> > source: ARIN
>
> Which seems to match who reserved the network. :-)
>
> Why Bill / EP.Net is experimenting / leaking 39/8 is beyond me, but at
> least from where I sit it's as legitimate as any other announcement.
>
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