Martian packet

A Martian packet is an IP packet which specifies a source or destination address that is reserved for special-use by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and cannot actually originate as claimed or be delivered.^[1]

Martian packets commonly arise from IP address spoofing in denial-of-service attacks,^[2] but can also arise from network equipment malfunction or misconfiguration of a host.^[1]

The name is derived from packet from Mars, a place where packets clearly can not originate.^[3]

Examples of Martian packets are^[4]:

• A packet with a source or destination IPv4 address in the ranges 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, or 192.168.0.0/16, when not participating in a private network.
• An incoming or outgoing packet whose source or destination address is in the range 127.0.0.0/8, which is reserved for loopback within the host.
• An incoming packet with a destination address of 255.255.255.255/32, which is reserved for internal broadcast.
• An incoming or outgoing packet with a Bogon source or destination address in an as-yet-unallocated range, or in the future-use range 240.0.0.0/4.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} RFC 1812 - Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
2. ^ RFC 3704 - Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks
3. ^ "Jargon File: martian". http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/martian.html. 
4. ^ RFC 5735 - Special Use IPv4 Addresses
5. ^ "IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry". http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/. 

See also

• Bogon filtering
• Christmas tree packet
• Chernobyl packet

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