Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (605 mails)

[Boris Lorenz <bolo@xxxxxxx>]

Yup,

On 30-Oct-01 Andreas Achtzehn wrote:
>> From: Kurt Seifried [mailto:listuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>> 
>> Reserved class A's you should NEVER see traffic from (at 
>> least until they start getting desperate for IP's):
>> 
>> 0.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
>> 1.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
>> [...]
> 
> Where do you derive that information from? Right now some of the
> networks
> still belong to IANA (--> unused), but how can a system administrator be
> 
> sure that the network won't be opened within the next few days? In worst
> case
> I'd deny access to my network for 254^3 IPs.

updates concerning reserved IANA netblocks can be found on
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space . Take a look at it every
month or so...

All the address blocks marked as "IANA - Reserved" should be blocked on the FW;
no legitimate traffic should come from there.

>  Regards, Andreas

Boris Lorenz <bolo@xxxxxxx>
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