Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:47:28 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), dchulhan@uwi.tt (Dale Chulhan - Home), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (chat@FreeBSD.ORG), TheTechies@onelist.com (My List) Subject: Re: Reserved IP Addresses Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010216082455.00ca3f00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200102160030.RAA11053@usr08.primenet.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010215073629.04e80420@localhost>
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At 05:30 PM 2/15/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >That's an incredibly bad idea, unless you intent is to stomp >all over the land grabs, instead of somehow legitimizing them >by recognizing their "grabbed" status. > >I'd have no problem with taking "grabbed" IP addresses, and >putting them in default firewall rule sets, without attributing >the grabbers, for example... The danger in doing this is that it legitimizes what companies such as HP have done. I always found it amusing that, when one did a reverse DNS lookup on the addresses HP has grabbed, one used to get a message saying something like: "HP.network.printer.uses.this.address.illegally". The folklore is that Jon Postel did this. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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