Huh? Too early for this.

Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*>i2.52.228.144/32 209.83.160.97 100 0 6347 1239 i

[root@netflow /root]# whois -h rs.arin.net 2.0
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) (RESERVED) (NET-RESERVED-2)

10 sl-bb2-chi-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.0.142) 38.508 ms 48.093 ms 42.923 ms
11 144.228.252.11 (144.228.252.11) 93.257 ms 42.579 ms 95.072 ms
12 sl-paterno-2-0-128k.sprintlink.net (144.228.52.2) 99.467 ms 105.426 ms 115.518 ms
13 sl-gw11-chi-9-1-TS5-128k.sprintlink.net (144.228.52.1) 50.118 ms 41.066 ms 41.413 ms

I'd be curious to know if this is the source of any spam.

Hrm.

Wait. Looking at 2.52.228.144 in the mirror = 144.228.52.2

[root@netflow /root]# whois -h rs.arin.net 144.228
Sprint (NET-SPRINT-INNET5)
   Government Systems Division
   13221 Woodland Park Road
   Herndon, VA 22071

   Netname: SPRINTLINK
   Netnumber: 144.228.0.0

What the hell is this?

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   Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*>i2.52.228.144/32 209.83.160.97 100 0 6347 1239 i
What the hell is this?

damned if i know. damned if i know why you're asking here as opposed to the
nocs of savvis and sprint.

randy

alex@nac.net writes:

   Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*>i2.52.228.144/32 209.83.160.97 100 0 6347 1239 i

Wait. Looking at 2.52.228.144 in the mirror = 144.228.52.2

[root@netflow /root]# whois -h rs.arin.net 144.228
Sprint (NET-SPRINT-INNET5)
   Government Systems Division
   13221 Woodland Park Road
   Herndon, VA 22071

   Netname: SPRINTLINK
   Netnumber: 144.228.0.0

What the hell is this?

Perhaps a BGP implementation with an endianness problem.

Folks should recall that with the hordes of new high-end router vendors
coming to market (or trying to anyways ;-), there will be a variety of
interesting behaviors (again ;-).

Tony