[52362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: any known users of NetRange 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Rall)
Thu Sep 26 20:58:29 2002
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Rall <trall@almaden.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:57:52 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thursday, 2002-09-26 at 20:42 AST, hostmaster <hostmaster@nso.org>
wrote:
> I have this very odd email address found with one of our employees....
> <hidden_user@172.17.0.1>
>
> Here's my questions:
>
> - Given that 1918 deals with allocation issues for "private Internets",
is
> there a recording entity of this special address space beyond the formal
> IANA, which details the distribution of data from any "private Internet"
> once it enters the public Internet vice versa ?
>
> - Whom to anyone's knowledge is known to be using (for special projects)
or
> perhaps misusing this 172.17.0.1 ?
This mail is likely from a spammer or (even more likely) from a
misconfigured sender behind a NAT gateway.
There are lots of folks using addresses in this range on the private
nets; some of it, unfortunately leaks to the Internet (all to no good).
Tony Rall
