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Re: APNIC description: "unknown"

From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:00:25 -0800


On Jan 31, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Vovan wrote:

Hello,

sorry for possibly trite question, but what does this ">>UNKNOWN<<" mean? e.g.:

Network            Origin AS  Description
41.222.79.0/24       36938     >>UNKNOWN<<


quote from: http://thyme.rand.apnic.net/current/data-add-IANA


Cheers,

Vladimir


It's an unallocated address being advertised by an unallocated AS number.

Pretty hard to identify a contact for such a route, no?

Owen