1.0.0.0/8 route from MERIT ?

Thu Feb 25 03:34:02 UTC 2010

On 25/02/2010, at 6:13 AM, Alex H. Ryu wrote:

> 
> Today I jumped into one of our routers, and I found that 1.0.0.0/8 is
> announced from AS237, which is MERIT.
> 
> 
>    Network            Next Hop        Metric LocPrf Weight Path
> *>  1.0.0.0/8          4.59.200.5      0      60     0      (65001
> 65105) 3356 7018 237 i
> 
> Is this supposed to be?
> I thought 1.0.0.0/8 is allocated to APNIC.

Yes, this is supposed to be. This is one of a number of planned experiments in advertising all and selected parts of 1/8 in the coming weeks.

Geoff Huston
APNIC