192.255.103.x

Fri Feb 12 02:08:51 UTC 2010

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Hector Herrera wrote:
> I'm trying to diagnose an issue with 192.255.103.x
> 
> As far as I can tell from IANA, the block 192/8 is allocated to ARIN.
> ARIN does not have a record of 192.255.103 being allocated to anybody.
> 
> Here is the issue ... the customer insists that is the correct IP and
> for a few hours yesterday, it was actually working.  Their satellite
> phone can reach it, but we can't see it advertised today from any
> networks.

Smells to me like their satphone provider could be doing something dodgy.
More info would be handy: what your customer's relationship to that IP block
is, and what they think should be available at that IP block.

- Matt