Can't remove route from routing table

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Published on 2012-05-31T16:30:43Z Indexed on 2012/05/31 16:43 UTC
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(I am on Windows Server 2003.)

I see a couple of unusual entries in my routing table that I would like to remove:

Network Destination          Netmask          Gateway        Interface  Metric
        XXX.27.44.1  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1      20
     XXX.27.255.255  255.255.255.255      XXX.27.44.1      XXX.27.44.1      20

All the "XXX"'s are the same octet.

I would strongly prefer NOT to clear the routing table, since this is a production server.

Here is what I've tried:

route delete XXX.27.44.1
The route specified was not found.

route delete XXX.27.44.1 mask 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 metric 20
The route specified was not found.

route delete XXX.27.255.255
The route specified was not found.

route delete XXX.27.255.255 mask 255.255.255.255 XXX.27.44.1 metric 20
The route specified was not found.

I also tried adding the routes in hopes that I could delete them:

route add XXX.27.44.1 mask 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 metric 20
The route addition failed: The parameter is incorrect.

route add XXX.27.255.255 mask 255.255.255.255 XXX.27.44.1 metric 20
The route addition failed: The parameter is incorrect.

Bonus question: What do these entries do, and how did they get there?

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