Private IP getting routed over Internet
- by WernerCD
We are setting up an internal program, on an internal server that uses the private 172.30.x.x subnet... when we ping the address 172.30.138.2, it routes across the internet:
C:\>tracert 172.30.138.2
Tracing route to 172.30.138.2 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 6 ms 1 ms 1 ms xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org [192.168.28.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 12 ms 13 ms 9 ms xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx.xxx.xxxxxxx.net [68.85.xx.xx]
4 15 ms 11 ms 55 ms te-7-3-ar01.salisbury.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.xx.xx]
5 13 ms 14 ms 18 ms xe-11-0-3-0-ar04.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.85.xx.xx]
6 19 ms 18 ms 14 ms te-1-0-0-4-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.xx.xx]
7 28 ms 30 ms 30 ms pos-4-12-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.xx.xx]
8 30 ms 43 ms 30 ms 68.86.xx.xx
9 30 ms 29 ms 31 ms 172.30.138.2
Trace complete.
This has a number of us confused. If we had a VPN setup, it wouldn't show up as being routed across the internet. If it hit an internet server, Private IP's (such as 192.168) shouldn't get routed.
What would let a private IP address get routed across servers? would the fact that it's all comcast mean that they have their routers setup wrong?
