RE: www.worldnet.att.net Network not in table

["Michael Hallgren" <m.hallgren () free fr>]

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:30:07PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > Is anyone else having difficulty reaching ATT's Worldnet?
> >
> > traceroute to www.worldnet.att.net (204.127.43.37), 30 hops max, 40 byte
> > packets
>
> So far as I know, www.worldnet.att.net is intended to be reachable only
> from Worldnet dialups.  204.127.0.0/17 is not advertised to the Internet
> at large.  www.att.net is in 204.127.128.0/17 and is reachable from
> anywhere.

If so is (which appears to be the case), for what reason is the (global) DNS
populated with corresponding data? Somewhat harmless, but fairly easy to
clean
up (via, for example, DNS configuration views) -- for making things more
beautiful.

Cheers,

mh


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