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Re: What a strange route (The DoD inside)!
From: Jean-Marc Soumet (Jean-Marc.Soumet
nsc.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2006 - 14:16:26 CDT
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Pieter de Boer wrote:
> dave wrote:
>
>> 11 26.26.26.xx (26.26.26.xx) 4.462 ms 3.674 ms 3.644 ms
>> 12 26.26.26.xxx (26.26.26.xxx) 5.055 ms 3.834 ms 3.797 ms
>> 13 26.26.26.xxx (26.26.26.xxx) 5.112 ms 3.541 ms 3.816 ms
>> DoD Network Information Center <- Why?
>>
> Sometimes people just assign themselves some IP address space, not via
> RIPE/ARIN/APNIC/etc, but just picking a address randomly. The range
> 26.26.26.xx looks like such an 'assignment'.
>
> Of course, it's bad habit to just pick a random address and use it
> inside your network, but it happens a lot, especially with rcf1918
> space. It also happens a lot that those addresses can be seen by
> tracerouting..
>
> Hope this clears things up a bit,
> Pieter
>
>
As Pieter said this ISP must be using DOD IP addresses on their internal
network. Unless they have a special link that transmits data directly
from Italy to Columbus, Ohio and back to Italy, in 1ms round trip. ^_^
I don't think this could be associated with Dave's incident.
Regards,
Jean-Marc
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