Quoting Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:04:28AM +0100, Klaus Eckhoff wrote:
> > - 5.0.2.0
> > - 5.255.116.166
> > - 1.121.22.146
> >
> > All these IPs are IANA reserved (and will be blocked by ProtoWall
> > for that reason). I'm wondering why freenet tries to connect
> > to this IPs, maybe it's a bug? Anybody else noticed such a
> > behaviour?
>
> Not according to RFC 3330:
> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3330.txt

RFC 3330 only lists specially marked ranges of domains.  5.0.0.0/8 and 1.0.0.0/8
are listed by ARIN as, respectively, the RESERVED-5 and RESERVED-9 networks,
owned and oeprated by IANA itself.  So, they're "IANA reserved", but shouldn't
necessarily be blocked by a firewall.  Unless the makers of the firewall know
something I don't.

"ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=" is the ARIN lookup form.  Try, for
example:

http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=N%20.%20RESERVED-5
or http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=1.121.22.146

So the question becomes: is the IANA running a node?

-todd

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