Whoa; the 3 network?

Tue Dec 23 06:41:25 UTC 1997

Maybe I should be sleeping rather than examining BGP tables, but:

whi4#sho ip bgp 3.156.20.0
BGP routing table entry for 3.156.20.0/24, version 449977
Paths: (1 available, best #1, advertised over IBGP)
  7372 701 3561 1221
    207.99.5.196 from 207.99.5.196 (208.210.32.17)
      Origin incomplete, localpref 500, valid, external, best
      Community: 666

traceroute to 3.156.20.1 (3.156.20.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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 5  telstra.SanFrancisco.mci.net (166.48.19.250)  332.535 ms  538.669 ms 365.308 ms
 6  Fddi0-0.pad-core1.Sydney.telstra.net (139.130.249.226)  290.266 ms 317.40 ms  290.209 ms
 7  Hssi6-0.lon-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net (139.130.249.214)  350.701 ms 339.90 ms  439.199 ms
 8  Fddi0-0.lon11.Melbourne.telstra.net (139.130.239.234)  419.291 ms 424.309 ms  283.243 ms
 9  power2.lnk.telstra.net (139.130.49.114)  403.623 ms  353.911 ms 307.750 ms
10  203.36.142.146 (203.36.142.146)  348.695 ms  310.482 ms  301.917 ms

[root at newspeer1 /root]# whois 3.0.0.0  
General Electric Company (NET-GE-INTERNET)
   One Independence Way
   Princeton, NJ  08540

   Netname: GE-INTERNET
   Netnumber: 3.0.0.0