Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
AS23456 is currently announcing a good few netblocks (which don't have a very good smtp reputation, by the way). Funny thing is, that's a special use ASN as per rfc4893, something about two octet ASNs that don't have a four octet representation. Only one upstream (airtelbroadband-as-ap, as24560)

Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
At least the 103.x which are announced by airtel. The other netblocks (one Indian and two brazilian) appear unrelated though also showing as23456 --srs (htc one x) On 03-Feb-2013 6:12 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian ops.li...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ops.li...@gmail.com'); wrote: AS23456

Re: Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 06:12:32PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: AS23456 is currently announcing a good few netblocks (which don't have a very good smtp reputation, by the way). To say the least. A quick rDNS scan reveals that those netblocks include: 8448 addresses

Re: Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Dave Pooser
On 2/3/13 9:04 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 06:12:32PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: AS23456 is currently announcing a good few netblocks (which don't have a very good smtp reputation, by the way). To say the least. A quick rDNS scan reveals that those

Re: Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I do believe, as has been pointed out to me elsewhere that this is what shows up when there's a 64 bit ASN and router software that doesn't grok 64 bit ASNs So, completely by chance that one such as belongs to what looks like a bulk mailer --srs (htc one x) On 03-Feb-2013 9:02 PM, Dave Pooser

Re: Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Brandon Ross
I strongly recommend that you read about and fully understand how 4-byte ASNs work, and their use of AS23456 before you continue this thread. On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I do believe, as has been pointed out to me elsewhere that this is what shows up when there's a 64

Re: Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Richard Barnes
Some links: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog45/presentations/Tuesday/Hankins_4byteASN_N45.pdf https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6793 On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Brandon Ross br...@pobox.com wrote: I strongly recommend that you read about and fully understand how 4-byte ASNs work, and

Re: Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Owen DeLong
AS23456 is what you get if your system doesn't properly support 32-bit ASNs and an AS-PATH (or peer) uses a 32-bit ASN. There should be an extended attribute on the route that contains the full 32-bit AS-PATH called AS4_PATH associated with any such routes. Arguably any route containing AS23456