On Sat, Apr 14, 2007, william(at)elan.net wrote:
If that is the case and they started using it in the days of J Postel with his permission, then its not a bogon. Conflicting information at ARIN and especially that their info was updated in 2006 leads me to believe that's the case. Add to it that I have several copies of old DoD hosts table and they all list it as "EDN-TEMP", but what it refers to and if the block should or should not still be in use I don't know.
Unfortunately all of this does not mean you should allow (or deny) traffic from 7.0.0.0/8, but it also does not mean that if you do see any traffic that its necessarily unauthorized.
.. you can always check the RIPE BGP announcement history to see whether its been announced forever or is a recent addition, no? Are they still running that project? Adrian