Class E addresses in the wild

Fri Mar 22 13:39:56 UTC 2013

It's in our Martians ACL but we left it off of a couple of new border
connections and saw a good bit of it forwarded to us since Wednesday from
multiple ISPs.
Fixed now but still curious.
Thanks,
Buz

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:10 PM, cb.list6 <cb.list6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am pretty sure Class E is completely defunct and not used anywhere
> > since Cisco and Juniper routers do not forward the packets (circa 2008
> > testing) and no known host accept it as a valid address, AFAIK.
>
> Both the net and host sides of this are trivially repairable problems,
> even for crazy cellphone network operators.  As long as you have host
> source code and a network vendor you can demand custom patches
> from....
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
>

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