Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 16:49:05 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: invalid IPs Message-ID: <9504182249.AA15657@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9504182039.AA06053@borg.ess.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Apr 18, 95 04:39:39 pm
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> Ok what does this mean? that something should respond to a ping or not? > > I thought the reason these numbers were reserved was that everyone(routers) > were supposed to ignore them if they ever appeared on the internet. > > So if I do traceroute and someone in the 204.157 domain is responding > does that mean something is a miss? or that they were given the numbers... > > I have been telling folks to use those reserved numbers for their private > networks because they should/would never appear on the net. It means that everything between you and them is broken. They are not supposed to be externally routed. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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