strange iptables log entry

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, M.W. Chang wrote:
> My firewall logged this IP trying to access port 68. What is
> prisoner.iana.org? It seems that it doesn't exist at all.

Exactly.  192.168.xxx.xxx is an unroutable IP block, same as 10.xxx.

>
> toylet at server: > dig -x 192.168.128.6
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> -x 192.168.128.6
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 57716
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;6.128.168.192.in-addr.arpa.    IN      PTR
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> 168.192.in-addr.arpa.   10705   IN      SOA     prisoner.iana.org.
> hostmaster.root-servers.org. 2002040800 1800 900 604800 604800
>
>

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