[51680] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IRR listing of IANA-reserved, a question..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John M. Brown)
Wed Sep 4 10:26:14 2002
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:25:48 -0700
From: "John M. Brown" <john@chagresventures.com>
To: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3D7613C0.2020802@marconi.com>; from David.Charlap@marconi.com on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:08:00AM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
They are not bogus, hence the sub-deligation, and hence a
good reason to have a more detailed source of information.
I would suspect that this block should be "chopped" a bit to
reflect the IANA/ICANN usage.
This block was first routed on the internet via AS 226 around
late summer early fall 1999.
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:08:00AM -0400, David Charlap wrote:
>
> 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
>
