[GTALUG] odd DHCP participant on Rogers cable internet

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Oct 26 10:32:04 UTC 2015


On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:32:18PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> On 10/23/2015 11:39 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > | explains that apparently 7.0.0.0/16 is reserved for internal use only
> > | behind the DoD firewalls,
> >
> > 7.11.164.145 is not in 7.0.0.0/16.
> >
> > Is it the case that the /8 is completely unrouted?
> 
> Back in the days of network classes, this would have been a /8 class A
> network, not /16.  However, with CIDR, /16 is entirely possible.

Right.  Well a search of route statuses says 7.0.0.0/8 is totally
none existant as far as BGP on the internet is concerned.  No one is
advertising it.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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