From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 13:00:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA16264 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:00:22 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA16248 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:00:17 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA14683; Tue, 18 Apr 95 13:53:49 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504181953.AA14683@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: PPP and dynamic IPs drifting a little To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 13:53:49 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504181741.AA05651@borg.ess.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Apr 18, 95 01:41:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.