Where's 209.240.157.34 ?

Richard Parker richard-parker at home.com
Wed Jan 6 00:21:04 UTC 1999


Chris Bradley wrote:

>Richard Parker wrote:
>
>> John R Levine wrote
>> >Where's 209.240.157.34 ?
>> >
>> >Got a spam advertising a web page there, ARIN claims it's not allocated
>> >although all the space around it is.  It routes through Tierranet.
>
>[edit]
>
>> Perhaps ARIN has reserved the entire /19 for TierraNet, but only
>> actually allocated the lower /20 to them?  Perhaps TierraNet is
>> announcing their /20 as a /19 to get past Sprint's route filters?
>
>ARIN policy for initial allocations to ISPs declares that a provider will be
>allowed to temporarily announce a /19, when they have been allocated a /20.

Well...that explains why they're announcing a /19 when they've been
allocated a /20, but it leaves the question "Why do they have machines
with addresses in the top portion of the /19 announcement that are not
in the /20 they've been allocated?"

-Richard



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