route: 0.0.0.0/32 in LEVEL3 IRR

Tue Jan 30 16:35:29 UTC 2024

That's pretty cool, actually. I keep wondering when someone will offer
up a 0.0.0.0/8...

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-0-00.html

There must be more people out there than just amazon and google that
ran out of 10/8.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 11:29 AM Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got 2 bounces for the email addresses seen below for an email similar
> to the below...
>
> Anyone want to remove this IRR entry before anyone notices...???   ;-)
>
> Frank
>
>
> I believe that the entry of
> route:          0.0.0.0/32
>
> does not serve any good purpose?
>
> I was surprised to see it in a list of prefixes from bgpq4 and the very
> good https://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/prefix/0.0.0.0 guided me that it's in
> "Level3".
>
> I'm wondering how many auto-generated filters contain this unnecessary
> prefix....
>
> PS: Oh, just seen - it's from TODAY. Maybe remove before anyone sees it...?
>
> Thanks for looking into this,
> Frank
>
>
> [frank at fisi ~]$ whois -h rr.level3.com 0.0.0.0/32
> [Querying rr.level3.com]
> [rr.level3.com]
> route:          0.0.0.0/32
> origin:         AS10753
> mnt-by:         TCCGlobalNV-MNT
> changed:        ankita.grewal at lumen.com
> source:         LEVEL3
> last-modified:  2024-01-30T11:04:49Z
>
>
> [frank at fisi ~]$ whois -h rr.level3.com TCCGlobalNV-MNT
> [Querying rr.level3.com]
> [rr.level3.com]
> mntner:         TCCGlobalNV-MNT
> descr:          TCC Global N.V.
> auth:           CRYPT-PW DummyValue  # Filtered for security
> upd-to:         ripehostmaster at eu.centurylink.net
> tech-c:         LTHM
> admin-c:        LTHM
> mnt-by:         TCCGlobalNV-MNT
> changed:        ankita.grewal at lumen.com
> source:         LEVEL3
> last-modified:  2024-01-30T11:01:52Z
>

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