Maybe I'm misreading this but...

William S. Duncanson caesar at starkreality.com
Wed Oct 14 21:41:33 UTC 1998


Somebody's router config is broken.  This is the reserved /12 for
enterprise addresses.  I would look at whoever Alternet's bs-jackson
customer is.

At 05:11 PM 10/14/98 -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
>
>The following traceroute seems to indicate, according to ARIN, that
>someone is running routers for spammers in the IANA Reserved netspace?
>
>First a traceroute:
>
>>world% traceroute www.libidomax.com
>>traceroute to www.libidomax.com (209.149.111.17), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
>> 1  Boston-STD-F.std.com (199.172.62.80)  17 ms  4 ms  4 ms
>> 2  553.Hssi2-0.GW2.BOS1.ALTER.NET (157.130.10.129)  59 ms  107 ms  69 ms
>> 3  124.ATM3-0.XR1.BOS1.ALTER.NET (146.188.176.250)  77 ms  54 ms  37 ms
>> 4  191.ATM2-0.TR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.179.82)  38 ms  51 ms  51 ms
>> 5  104.ATM7-0.TR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET (146.188.136.57)  80 ms  87 ms  133 ms
>> 6  100.ATM7-0.XR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET (146.188.232.85)  91 ms  141 ms  63 ms
>> 7  195.ATM10-0-0.GW1.JAX1.ALTER.NET (146.188.232.169)  53 ms  81 ms  107 ms
>> 8  bs-jackson-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.65.226)  107 ms  132 ms  96 ms
>> 9  172.17.80.46 (172.17.80.46)  59 ms  53 ms  44 ms
>>10  172.21.210.18 (172.21.210.18)  122 ms  96 ms  49 ms
>>11  209.149.111.17 (209.149.111.17)  53 ms (ttl=118!)  58 ms (ttl=118!)  
>150 ms (ttl=118!)
>
>
>
>Ok, now let's look up the 172.* addresses:
>
>>world% arin 172.17.80.46
>>IANA (IANA-BBLK-RESERVED)
>>   Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
>>   Information Sciences Institute
>>   University of Southern California
>>   4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
>>   Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
>>
>>   Netname: IANA-BBLK-RESERVED
>>   Netblock: 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.0.0
>>
>>   Coordinator:
>>      Internet Assigned Numbers Authority  (IANA-ARIN)  iana at iana.org
>>      (310) 822-1511
>>
>>   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
>>
>>   BLACKHOLE.ISI.EDU            128.9.64.26
>>   NS2.INTERNIC.NET             198.41.0.11
>
>and I get the same result of course for the other 172 address so I'll
>save you the redundant cut and paste.
>
>What's going on here?
>
>-- 
>        -Barry Shein
>
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