[PATCH] Lib: accept 240.0.0.0/4 as a valid range

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Wed Mar 16 20:21:50 CET 2022


On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:02:25AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> 240.0.0.0/4 is marked as reserved and considered invalid by BIRD. At
> work, we are using this range internally since all RFC 1918 are full
> and 100.64.0.0/10 is already used too. BIRD complains loudly for each
> interface using this range.
> 
> This change makes it possible to use this range. I have used scope
> "universe". But I would be happy with "site" too. While widely
> discussed, I don't think 240/4 will become routable on the Internet
> one day.

Hi

Updated BIRD to accept 240/4 as 'site' scope. We went with slightly
different patch:

https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/269bfff9bf4b2349248bb48ff61009cf1c5a4aec

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