[86660] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAB and "private" numbering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Sun Nov 13 12:19:54 2005
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 04:14:41 +1100
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
nanog@nanog.org
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0511121629300.20032@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>Example registered but not 'routed': 7.0.0.0/8
Not a good example.
This particular /8 allocation is described by IANA as "007/8 Apr
95 IANA - Reserved"
in http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space while a whois query
to the ARIN database reveals:
$ whois 7.0.0.0
OrgName: DoD Network Information Center
OrgID: DNIC
Address: 3990 E. Broad Street
City: Columbus
StateProv: OH
PostalCode: 43218
Country: US
NetRange: 7.0.0.0 - 7.255.255.255
CIDR: 7.0.0.0/8
NetName: DISANET7
NetHandle: NET-7-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
Comment: Defense Information Systems Agency
Comment: DISA /D3
Comment: 11440 Isaac Newton Square
Comment: Reston, VA 22090-5087 US
RegDate: 1997-11-24
Updated: 1998-09-26
RTechHandle: MIL-HSTMST-ARIN
RTechName: Network DoD
RTechPhone: +1-800-365-3642
RTechEmail: HOSTMASTER@nic.mil
OrgTechHandle: MIL-HSTMST-ARIN
OrgTechName: Network DoD
OrgTechPhone: +1-800-365-3642
OrgTechEmail: HOSTMASTER@nic.mil
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-11-12 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
So in this case who is telling the truth? IANA or ARIN? Is this, as ARIN
data is claiming, an address block that is currently allocated to the US
Dept of Defense via a "direct allocation" (by IANA presumably, but
unspecified in any case), or is this, as IANA data is claiming, an address
block that is currently in the IANA reserved pool and can be allocated to
an RIR in the future. Go figure.
>Would we want to change whois output to include the 'pub/priv' flag?
or "conflicting data" flag?
>or perhaps I completely missed the mark? :)
no comment :-)
Geoff
