[ncc-announce] 128.0.0.0/16 configured as martians in some routers

Dear Colleagues,

The correct prefix and pingable address list for the Debogonising Project is:

prefix	        pinagble address

128.0.0.0/21	128.0.0.1
128.0.24.0/24	128.0.24.1

Our apologies for the oversight.

Best regards,

Alex Le Heux
Policy Implementation Co-ordinator
RIPE NCC


On Dec 5, 2011, at 16:20, Alex Le Heux 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