Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:51:25 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>, Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reserved IP Addresses Message-ID: <3A96167D.42621266@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102150905420.69507-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <xzpd7ckrmp5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> writes:
> > I don't see a problem here. Is this route supposed to be directly
> > accessable outside of their network? If it's behind their border routers,
> > and not for use outside hte netwok, a private network address is quite
> > reasonable.
>
> No, it's not reasonable to use such addresses for equipment that is
> visible from the outside.
Whether this is "reasonable" is still a matter of tremendous debate, but
it's very common to use 1918 space for equipment that will not see packets
from the outside world.
Doug
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