19 Sep
2017
19 Sep
'17
10:12 p.m.
On mar. 19 sept. 22:32:34 2017, Alexander Demenshin wrote:
Hi,
Any reason why 240.0.0.0/4+ routes are ignored by bird (1.6.3)?
I have tried to blackhole this range in static protocol, but got this message.
Attempts to manually add any kernel route from this range were silently ignored.
Hi, Because this range is not aimed to be routed or added to any host, cf. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1112 section 4. You need to be part of a multicast group to use those addresses, as said in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast#Routing -- alarig