Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator <nc@ain.charm.net> To: James Leppek <jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: invalid IPs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950418200019.189C-100000@ain.charm.net> In-Reply-To: <9504182039.AA06053@borg.ess.harris.com>
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On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, James Leppek wrote: > > 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. I guess I was > wrong :-( > Oh well, lost count of my mistakes long ago :-) > As a matter of fact. There is a system called zod.clark.net that is completely announced to the whole world that has the address: 192.245.235.1. And the 192 net is reserved completely and utterly. Go figure... -Jerry.
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