Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference

Configuring Martian Addresses

Martian addresses are host or network addresses about which all routing information is ignored. They commonly are sent by improperly configured systems on the network and have destination addresses that are obviously invalid.

In IPv4, the following are the default martian addresses:

• 0.0.0.0/8

• 127.0.0.0/8

• 128.0.0.0/16

• 191.255.0.0/16

• 192.0.0.0/24

• 223.255.255.0/24

• 240.0.0.0/4

To add martian addresses to the list of default martian addresses in the default routing table (inet.0), include the martians statement at the [edit routing-options] hierarchy level. To add martian addresses to the list of default martian addresses in any other routing tables, or to explicitly add martian addresses to the list of default martian addresses ...