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Re: 224.1.0.38 in MSDP


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  • From: Michael H Lambert <>
  • To: wg-multicast <>
  • Subject: Re: 224.1.0.38 in MSDP
  • Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:55:18 -0400

On 21 Oct 2013, at 20:48, Alan Whinery
<>
wrote:

> Sidebar: After looking into a bunch of 226.178.217.5 traffic on our net,
> I found that SpyBot Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/
> ) uses that group to trade "Someone else out there?" messages (actual
> text from packet) among its instances. Hard to say whether the
> programmers of this "feature" understand that there are real networks
> that disseminate multicast routes outside a given enterprise.

We block the group at the GigaPoP border (along with all the other
IANA-reserved multicast space).

Michael

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