Usage of fd00::/8 on the Interwebz - something with filters and uRPF
Jan Boogman
boogman at ip-plus.net
Thu May 30 08:27:45 CEST 2013
hmm, this is the ip of our ServiceApp6 SVI interface, which C told us has only local significance, apparently this is not the case.
Time to renumber then.
Cheers
Jan
Am 29.05.2013 um 21:59 schrieb Jeroen Massar <jeroen at massar.ch>:
> ...
> 4 2001:7f8:1::a500:3303:1 (2001:7f8:1::a500:3303:1) 20.755 ms 20.763 ms 20.784 ms
> 5 fd00:3303::1 (fd00:3303::1) 22.010 ms 21.984 ms 21.986 ms
> 6 2a02:120c:1051:d010::1 (2a02:120c:1051:d010::1) 17.806 ms 17.889 ms 17.842 ms
> 7 2a02:120c:1051:d010::1 (2a02:120c:1051:d010::1) 18.720 ms 18.593 ms 18.617 ms
> ...
>
> Hmmmm fd00::/8, that really should never ever be visible on the Internet, being Unique *LOCAL* Addresses.
> And it does not look like they applied the randomness bit for picking a prefix either.
> You would also almost think that a /28 is more than enough address space to put a few router loopbacks in.
>
> It is apparently time for people to start checking their filters again because it seems that these packets leak into other ASNs too...
>
> More generally, do recheck your network for BCP38 compliance, please do apply it and require your peers to do the same!
>
> Greets,
> Jeroen
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