Question about Martians on Vyatta

Thu Jun 28 15:45:24 UTC 2012

On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Eric Germann <egermann at limanews.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I'm trying to understand why a Vyatta 6.4 collection of routers is carping about the following as martian routes:
> 
> 113.107.174.14
> 27.73.1.159
> 94.248.215.60
> 95.26.105.161
> 
> They don't look like they fall in the traditional martian space.    I also wondered if they were addresses without a reverse route, but they have reverse paths in our routing tables (full routes from AS 10796 and 11530).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> EKG
> 

Do you have routing-table entries which cover those IPs?  Try "ip route show <ip>" as root.

Linux NET/4 stack considers (as far as IPv4/IPv6 go) anything that is not in the routing table or an immediate neighbour as "martian."

William