On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:10:32AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
I've just noticed that DHCP responses come from 7.11.164.145. According to whois, that address belongs to the US Department of Defence.
I'm pretty sure that that means Rogers has hijacked DoD addresses. What's up with that?
NetRange: 7.0.0.0 - 7.255.255.255 CIDR: 7.0.0.0/8 NetName: DISANET7 NetHandle: NET-7-0-0-0-1 Parent: () NetType: Direct Allocation OriginAS: Organization: DoD Network Information Center (DNIC) RegDate: 1997-11-24 Updated: 2006-04-28 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-7-0-0-0-1
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25679029-Why-is-my-first-hop-to-a-DoD-assig... explains that apparently 7.0.0.0/16 is reserved for internal use only behind the DoD firewalls, and can not be routed publicly, and rogers has decided to use those for internal addresses (probably to avoid conflicts with what customers do behind their own routers). So rogers is apparently working to change 10.* to 7.* for internal equipment. So it looks weird, but it might actually be a good idea on the part of rogers. Surprisingly. -- Len Sorensen