[51677] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IRR listing of IANA-reserved, a question..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Wed Sep 4 10:08:08 2002
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:08:00 -0400
From: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
John M. Brown wrote:
>
> In the last 72 hours I've seen over 3GB of data hit a network
> I play with with source IP's of IANA-RESERVED space.
Just out of curiosity, do you know that these are bogus source
addresses? Some of the IANA-RESERVED block is actually valid and is
used by IANA's computers.
My company was blocking all of the IANA-RESERVED space for a while,
until we discovered that the IANA web server is using an address in that
space.
Note:
$dig www.iana.org a
; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> www.iana.org a
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 6, Addit: 6
;; QUESTIONS:
;; www.iana.org, type = A, class = IN
;; ANSWERS:
www.iana.org. 68055 A 192.0.34.69
...
and:
$whois -h whois.arin.net 192.0.34.69
IANA RESERVED-192 (NET-192-0-0-0-1)
192.0.0.0 - 192.0.127.255
ICANN
c/o Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ICANN (NET-192-0-32-0-1)
192.0.32.0 - 192.0.47.255
> Various people have reported seeing IANA-RSERVED get announced
> via BGP at different parts of the net.
Again, bogus addresses or legitimate IANA servers? Not everything in
IANA-RESERVED is bogus.
-- David
