[96030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sat Apr 14 05:10:32 2007
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:20:29 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: "Jon R. Kibler" <Jon.Kibler@aset.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0704140105460.30269@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> If that is the case and they started using it in the days of J Postel
> with his permission, then its not a bogon. Conflicting information at
> ARIN and especially that their info was updated in 2006 leads me to
> believe that's the case. Add to it that I have several copies of old
> DoD hosts table and they all list it as "EDN-TEMP", but what it refers
> to and if the block should or should not still be in use I don't know.
>
> Unfortunately all of this does not mean you should allow (or deny) traffic
> from 7.0.0.0/8, but it also does not mean that if you do see any traffic
> that its necessarily unauthorized.
.. you can always check the RIPE BGP announcement history to see whether
its been announced forever or is a recent addition, no? Are they still
running that project?
Adrian
