Re: any known users of NetRange 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
On Thursday, 2002-09-26 at 20:42 AST, hostmaster <hostmaster@nso.org> wrote:
I have this very odd email address found with one of our employees.... <hidden_user@172.17.0.1>
Here's my questions:
- Given that 1918 deals with allocation issues for "private Internets", is there a recording entity of this special address space beyond the formal IANA, which details the distribution of data from any "private Internet" once it enters the public Internet vice versa ?
- Whom to anyone's knowledge is known to be using (for special projects) or perhaps misusing this 172.17.0.1 ?
This mail is likely from a spammer or (even more likely) from a misconfigured sender behind a NAT gateway. There are lots of folks using addresses in this range on the private nets; some of it, unfortunately leaks to the Internet (all to no good). Tony Rall
TR> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:57:52 -0700 TR> From: Tony Rall TR> This mail is likely from a spammer or (even more likely) from TR> a misconfigured sender behind a NAT gateway. It's difficult for TCP to work when there's no return path, unless one has highly-predictable ISNs. Chances are it's "inside" the network. Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.
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