[AusNOG] iinet secret SA gateway - reg. cust. with iinet GW 203.217.8.255 is in Tas ?

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

Wait, why is iiNet sending this guy's traffic via the American Republican
Party and the British National Guard??

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 13:18, Mark Tees <marktees at gmail.com> wrote:

> It’s a secret proxy ARP’d anycast’d BNG gateway.
>
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 12:04, Karl Kloppenborg <k at rl.ag> wrote:
>
>> Just checking, it’s Friday yes?
>>
>>
>>
>> --Karl.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Go Group -
>> GEO Gurus <gogroup.au at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Friday, 16 February 2024 at 12:58 pm
>> *To: *ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>> *Subject: *[AusNOG] iinet secret SA gateway - reg. cust. with iinet GW
>> 203.217.8.255 is in Tas ?
>>
>> G'Day Guys
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm a newbie here so hope !'m ! breaking any rules posting about a LAN ?
>>
>>
>>
>> I was checking a regional SA iinet DHCP set static IP config.& noticed
>> that the GW is 203.217.8.255 in Tasmania.
>>
>>
>>
>> They are iinet customer 4 15+ years & have 9 static IPs
>>
>>
>>
>> If I tracert 203-217-8-bcast.perm.iinet.net.au ( 203.217.8.255 ) the 1st
>> few hops r prefix 'adl-' so IT seems that having a state prefix is
>> important at iiNET as far as host naming conventions go.
>>
>>
>>
>> Customer has a photo & screen shot of the router they had setup approx.
>> 10 years ago & GW ( again DHCP set ) from this setup is a host with the
>> prefix 'adl-'
>>
>>
>>
>> iinet bus. support are saying ' No Problem ' to fix & will not provide a
>> Gateway IP 4 SA customers, but will provide DNS server IPs
>>
>>
>>
>> I was part of a team that managed the most popular website in the
>> southern hemisphere & the largest windows server / vmware network in the
>> southern hemisphere so I know about vmotion etc. & why we need to keep
>> secrets but why does iinet have a secret SA gateway !!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Any1 else in SA who has an iinet customer & can check their routers GW IP
>> ?
>>
>>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>
>> Ken G. - Go G.
>>
>> GEO Guru
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>>
>>
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