On 02/04/2018 18:35, Simon Lockhart wrote: > On Mon Apr 02, 2018 at 11:17:47AM -0400, John Levine wrote: >> So it's routed deliberately but it sure looks like an experiment. >> There's way too much equipment that treats 1.1.1.1 as magic for it to >> work reliably. Captive portals tend to use that address for the host >> you contact to log out. > Quite. > > This looks like a willy-waving exercise by Cloudflare coming up with the > lowest > quad-digit IP. They must have known that this would cause routing issues, and > now suddenly it's our responsibility to make significant changes to live > infrastructures just so they can continue to look clever with the IP address. > > Simon
Perhaps they are running all this to shake out exactly these type of issues? I think that is exactly why APNIC research is called for. -Hank
