[75135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rfc1978 help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jess Kitchen)
Fri Nov 5 15:13:01 2004
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 20:15:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jess Kitchen <jk@burstfire.net>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: adrian kok <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1099679548.9684.127.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Jeroen Massar wrote:
[snip]
> > 3/ I got the following. ls it normail?
> > why there is connection to the broadcast address
> >
> > tcp 0 1 202.64.230.8:33397
> > 192.168.255.255:25 SYN_SENT
>
> 255.255 or anything ending in 255 doesn't need to be a broadcast
> interface. Welcome to the wonderful world of CIDR :)
This is probably a bounce headed toward deliberately broken MXes - anyone
else seeing a lot of this lately? (tons of domains with conspicuously
common nameservers, serving up unreachable A/MX and hosing queues)
J.
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