[members-discuss] Global routing problem with 178.0.0.0/8 - Update your IANA filter lists

Dear Colleagues,

together with some other LIR's we've discovered there are several issues 
with
allocations/assignments made within the 178.0.0.0/8 range.

Seemingly there are some server/router administrators/companies out 
there which
don't regular update their IANA Allocation list.

We've observed that a lot of networks are unreachable if we use IPs out 
of the 178.0.0.0/8 range.
The same observation also made other LIR's we know.

After contacting these networks (from MD, RO, RU, DE, and other 
counties), we figured out
that they all reported they had firewall/filter rules using a IANA 
allocation list, and their list
reported 178/8 to be "iana-reserved" or "iana-unallocated".

The network 178.0.0.0/8 were allocated on January 2009 to the RIPE NCC, 
hence
these operators haven't updated their lists for more than 1 year. I guess
the filter was set up once without taking into account that currently 
unallocated networks
might get allocated later on.

This problem concerns everyone at the moment, especially people with 
allocations from
178.0.0.0/8.

I ask every one of you to check if you use an iana filter list or if 
possible, notify your
clients, data centers and so on to check and if necessary update their 
lists.

Are other members in this discussion list maybe observing the same 
problem as
we did and our LIR colleagues?

Cheers!



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Sven Wiese

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