128.0.0.0/16 configured as martians in some routers

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Tue Dec 6 08:50:46 UTC 2011


* Alex Le Heux:

> The RIPE NCC is aware that 128.0.0.0/16 is configured as a martian by
> default in (some) Juniper OS, even though RFC 5735 and RFC3330 outline
> that this /16 should no longer be reserved as specialised address
> space.

Would someone please clarify the impact?  Will it result in a blackhole,
or will the entire announcement be suppressed?  I suspect the latter,
given what we see and what Chris Adams has reported.

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