Re: Class E addresses in the wild

["cb.list6" <cb.list6 () gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:06 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert () gmail com> wrote:
> It is (or was) fairly commonly in use among internal nets which
> overflowed RFC 1918 or have to internetwork with other heavy users of
> RFC 1918 space.  I know of at least two service providers and one cell
> network who were using it for that 3 years ago.

I am pretty sure Class E is completely defunct and not used anywhere
since Cisco and Juniper routers do not forward the packets (circa 2008
testing) and no known host accept it as a valid address, AFAIK.

CB

> Someone leaking internal routes for such?  Or attempt to hijack the space?
>
> Only the Shadow knows...
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3 () gmail com> wrote:
> > No authorized IETF use that I know of. See
> > http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Donald
> > =============================
> >  Donald E. Eastlake 3rd   +1-508-333-2270 (cell)
> >  155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA
> >  d3e3e3 () gmail com
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Buz Dale <buzdale () gmail com> wrote:
> > > Is anyone else seeing a lot of Class E address space (240.0.0.0/4) at their
> > > borders?  Has this space been reinstated in some as yet unknown to me RFC?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Buz
> > >
> > > --
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> > > buzdale () gmail com
> > > GMT -5
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> > > Buz Dale
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