On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:27:38PM -0800, Hector Herrera wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Matthew Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Hector Herrera wrote: > >> I'm trying to diagnose an issue with 192.255.103.x > >> > >> As far as I can tell from IANA, the block 192/8 is allocated to ARIN. > >> ARIN does not have a record of 192.255.103 being allocated to anybody. > >> > >> Here is the issue ... the customer insists that is the correct IP and > >> for a few hours yesterday, it was actually working. ?Their satellite > >> phone can reach it, but we can't see it advertised today from any > >> networks. > > > > Smells to me like their satphone provider could be doing something dodgy. > > More info would be handy: what your customer's relationship to that IP block > > is, and what they think should be available at that IP block. > > According to the customer the IP is at their home network. They are > in town for a certain large event *cough*fiverings*cough* and they > keep insisting (and their home IT department indicates the IP is > valid). > > The customer is now claiming this IP is part of a "hidden" and > "secret" block of IPs ... How can you have hidden IPs?
Pfft, that's just code for "we picked a block at random". See also: 1/8. > I think I'm just going to chalk this one up to a made up IP block that > is probably statically routed by their satphone provider. Indeed. - Matt
