Dodgy-ness.... on RCN's behalf! BGP filtering of Bogons and Martians would prevent this from going outside of most if not all local AS's.
laptop:~ doduibhi$ whois -h whois.cymru.com "207.172.15.67" AS | IP | AS Name 6079 | 207.172.15.67 | RCN-AS - RCN Corporation RCN doing some monkey magic.... D. On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Les Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Richard Golodner" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > I am in Chicago now and using Visual Route's trial edition it tells me > 10.10.167.40 can be found in Australia. > << > > I am in Australia now, and I can't traceroute to 10.10.167.40. I get a > couple of hops into my ISP's routers, and then - not surprisingly - they > have no route to that destination. > > Network 10.0.0.0/8 used to be the old ARPANet, before its address space was > reclaimed for use in RFC 1918 private address space. It's long gone. > > It's not unusual for ISP's to RFC 1918 addresses inside their networks; for > example, I notice that my Telstra ADSL connection used to pass through a > few 172.16.0.0/16 type addresses. Of course, those wouldn't be reachable > across the core of the Internet, or anywhere outside Telstra, basically. > > Best, > > --- Les Bell > [http://www.lesbell.com.au] > Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > -- ________________________________________________________________________________ Donal ( http://bsdosx.blogspot.com/ ) "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
