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Re: .mil domain

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Fri May 30 12:20:24 2003

From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Steve Waddington" <stevew@onet.com.au>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:06:51 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Thus spake "Steve Waddington" <stevew@onet.com.au>
> Our whole netblock 202.154.64.0/18 seems to be barred from anything
> .mil.  Domain name resolution, MX, IP traceroute, the lot.
>
> Anyone able to shed any light on this?

US DoD has a longstanding policy of blocking all addresses which appear to
be of non-US origin.  Your block comes from APNIC, so that's probably what's
happening to you.

S

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