[H-GEN] interesting routing

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

Hi all.  A few ppl already know about this after a discussion on #humbug.
I discovered this at humbug last night by accident...

nf is the Norfolk Islands top level domain (TLD), btw.

blake[2:39am]:~>nslookup nf
Server:  blake.oc.humbug.org.au
Address:  203.46.133.200

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    nf
Address:  203.12.249.101

Interest eh?  nf is a host.  But wait, there's more...

blake[2:40am]:~>traceroute nf
traceroute to nf (203.12.249.101), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  gw.cha10.Brisbane.telstra.net (139.130.74.129)  159.26 ms  128.002 ms
119.689 ms
 2  Ethernet1-0.cha2.Brisbane.telstra.net (139.130.247.65)  119.459 ms
128.606 ms  129.649 ms
 3  Fddi0-0.cha-core1.Brisbane.telstra.net (139.130.247.226)  119.493 ms
128.553 ms  129.722 ms
 4  Atm4-1-0-1.pad-core3.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.13)  139.43 ms
138.565 ms  139.721 ms
 5  FastEthernet0-0-0.pad20.Sydney.telstra.net (139.130.249.242)  139.418
ms  138.641 ms  139.678 ms
 6  pleai1.lnk.telstra.net (139.130.34.170)  169.551 ms  138.484 ms
149.678 ms
 7  10.0.0.100 (10.0.0.100)  139.483 ms  148.717 ms  139.697 ms
 8  ns2.nf (203.12.249.101)  149.456 ms  158.639 ms  159.692 ms

What is wrong with this picture?

Hop 7 contains a private IP.  I had various ppl around the world check
this via #linpeople, and it is apparently visible world wide.

Interesting eh?
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
                                robert.brockway at uq.net.au
			 WWW:   http://www.humbug.org.au/~robert
			 Founder of HUMBUG (http://www.humbug.org.au)


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