Re: 128.0.0.0/16 configured as martians in some routers

[David Swafford <david () davidswafford com>]

Hi Alex,

In Dayton, Ohio, US, we are not seeing any 128... routes from TWTC (AS 4323).

In St. Louis, Ohio, US, we are seeing the 128.0.0.0/21 via Level 3 (AS 3356).


David Swafford,
Sr. Network Engineer, CareSource



On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Alex Le Heux <alexlh () ripe net> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The RIPE NCC is aware that 128.0.0.0/16 is configured as a martian by default in (some) Juniper OS, even though RFC 
> 5735 and RFC3330 outline that this /16 should no longer be reserved as specialised address space.
>
> All allocations that were already issued have been exchanged and for now we will hold this space in quarantine.
>
> We urge everyone to change the default behaviour of their Juniper routers:
>
> set routing-options martians 128.0.0.0/16 orlonger allow
> set routing-options martians 191.255.0.0/16 orlonger allow
> set routing-options martians 223.255.255.0/24 exact allow
>
> 128.0.0.0/16 has been added to the RIPE NCC's Debogonising Project:
>
> http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon/
>
> To facilitate testing, the following prefixes are being announced:
>
> prefix  pinagble address
>
> 128.0.0.0/16    128.0.0.1
> 128.0.8.0/21    128.0.8.1
> 128.0.24.0/24   128.0.24.1
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alex Le Heux
> Policy Implementation Co-ordinator
> RIPE NCC