Re: IRR listing of IANA-reserved, a question..

["Marshall Eubanks" <tme () multicasttech com>]

On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:08:00 -0400
 David Charlap <David.Charlap () marconi com> wrote:
> John M. Brown wrote:
> > In the last 72 hours I've seen over 3GB of data hit a network
> > I play with with source IP's of IANA-RESERVED space.
>
> Just out of curiosity, do you know that these are bogus source 
> addresses?  Some of the IANA-RESERVED block is actually valid and is 
> used by IANA's computers.
>
> My company was blocking all of the IANA-RESERVED space for a while, 
> until we discovered that the IANA web server is using an address in that 
> space.

This seems like an unwise overlaying of the IANA-RESERVED space to me.

Why can't IANA allocate itself a /20 (or whatever it needs) and keep
IANA-RESERVED space for unallocated addresses (plus maybe
experimental uses that can and should be filtered at every border).

Regards
Marshall Eubanks
that 

> Note:
>       $dig www.iana.org a
>
>       ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> www.iana.org a
>       ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6
>       ;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 6, Addit: 6
>       ;; QUESTIONS:
>       ;;      www.iana.org, type = A, class = IN
>
>       ;; ANSWERS:
>       www.iana.org.   68055   A       192.0.34.69
>       ...
>
> and:
>       $whois -h whois.arin.net 192.0.34.69
>       IANA RESERVED-192 (NET-192-0-0-0-1)
>                                         192.0.0.0 - 192.0.127.255
>       ICANN
>       c/o Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ICANN (NET-192-0-32-0-1)
>                                         192.0.32.0 - 192.0.47.255
>
> > Various people have reported seeing IANA-RSERVED get announced
> > via BGP at different parts of the net.
>
> Again, bogus addresses or legitimate IANA servers?  Not everything in 
> IANA-RESERVED is bogus.
>
> -- David