Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 13:53:49 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PPP and dynamic IPs drifting a little Message-ID: <9504181953.AA14683@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9504181741.AA05651@borg.ess.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Apr 18, 95 01:41:38 pm
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> Speaking of IP's I was responding to this mail and recalled
> the words of wisdom in the /etc/hosts file about selecting
> private IPs from a set of reserved numbers that are never
> to appear on the net and getting valid numbers if
> you are on the net. It had mentioned 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255
> as reserved.
>
> Well, I tried to ping those to confirm they are never in use and
> I got an answer! Then I tried 192.168.1.2 and it answered!!
>
> So what is the scoop on those numbers and RFC1597?
[rs0.internic.net]
IANA (IANA-CBLK-RESERVED)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
Netname: IANA-CBLK1
Netblock: 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.0
Coordinator:
Reynolds, Joyce K. (JKR1) JKRey@ISI.EDU
(310) 822-1511
Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
NS.ISI.EDU 128.9.128.127
DNS.MERIT.NET 35.1.1.42
Record last updated on 01-Nov-94.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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