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Class E addresses in the wild
- Subject: Class E addresses in the wild
- From: buzdale at gmail.com (Buz Dale)
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:39:56 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CAK__KzvJ0wO7scH8aZxOsRWo5C96+XVH0hWx+0WXDA=kNUHi_A@mail.gmail.com>
- References: <CACFrepZNAVm_Gfm0LnR7KhOPLFbCkeNTEZgKHEz5pOJp8r05oQ@mail.gmail.com> <CACFrepb0ADKh6vzuP9QE3m5vskj4gwBp3gkZm47qrLLap12gWQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAF4+nEGB2cxD+i=WuAvMaZag2JQJkqJD8PAkB5b94mE4HHNong@mail.gmail.com> <CAK__KztcK3B-OvBsGpv2mb7eA-0vmkus-fK39J=NP0Na+D+-4A@mail.gmail.com> <CAD6AjGSgeyM_j0oTiMyBzv=YqENS_x9BQywAdjKbH+h---3SaA@mail.gmail.com> <CAK__KzvJ0wO7scH8aZxOsRWo5C96+XVH0hWx+0WXDA=kNUHi_A@mail.gmail.com>
It's in our Martians ACL but we left it off of a couple of new border
connections and saw a good bit of it forwarded to us since Wednesday from
multiple ISPs.
Fixed now but still curious.
Thanks,
Buz
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:10 PM, cb.list6 <cb.list6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am pretty sure Class E is completely defunct and not used anywhere
> > since Cisco and Juniper routers do not forward the packets (circa 2008
> > testing) and no known host accept it as a valid address, AFAIK.
>
> Both the net and host sides of this are trivially repairable problems,
> even for crazy cellphone network operators. As long as you have host
> source code and a network vendor you can demand custom patches
> from....
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
>
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