IANA or Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources including Autonomous System (AS) numbers used for routing Internet traffic. IANA established the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) to allocate IP address in geographical regions.There are total of five Regional Internet Registry (RIR) service regions currently. RIR RIR Name Service Region Website Established AFRINIC African Network Coordination Centre Africa https://www.afrinic.net 2005 APNIC Asia-Pacific Network Coordination Centre Asia Pacific,…
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“Bogon” or coined from the word “bogus”, In computer world, these are IP addresses that have not been officially assigned to an entity such as IANA or Internet Assigned Number Authority which is an organization who managed allocation of globally unique IPs. Bogon IP adddress/ranges should not appear on the public Internet so network engineers should filter these as they are meant for use only in private networks and considered reserved for special purposes. You can refer to Team Cymru website…
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