Re: Why are phone internet operators using UK MoD and US DoD IP ranges in their networks?

["Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)" <andris () aernet ru>]

Hi Julius,


Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:45:20 +0200 Julius Kivimäki wrote:

> So, it appears that Sprint and T-Mobile are using 25.*.*.* and
> 28.*.*.* as their phone network internal IPs.

Not only Sprint and T-Mobile - here is the snip from one recent spam
message:

Received: from megafonpro.ru (mail.megafonpro.ru [193.201.231.40])
        by fr51.aha.ru (Postfix) with SMTP id C24E72E3F
        for <andris () aernet ru>; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:03:34 +0400 (MSK)
Received: from Privet (83.149.9.199) by megafonpro.ru (7.3.118.8)
        id 49AFA7CF0308FD8C for andris () aernet ru; Thu, 12 Jan 2012
08:42:08 +0300

Note the use of 7.3.118.8 IP address! The 7/8 network is allocated to
DoD.

> This causes a ton of security issues, why would they do this?

Just because some network admins are lazy and dumb and even don't want
to read RFC 1918 and other BCPs.


-- 

Yours sincerely,

Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)     http://www.andris.name/

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