From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 15 06:49:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA02860 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:49:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA02854 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id HAA00496; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 07:49:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA09057; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 07:45:14 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 07:45:14 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: Brian McGovern cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re: Weird IP addresses In-Reply-To: <199712151436.JAA08694@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Brian McGovern wrote: > None of the explanations are true. > > The fact of the matter is the Internic has broken down most of their > "Reserved" Class A, and B blocks in order to make as many C blocks as > possible. There was an RFC published a while back (I remember it in the > six month timeframe, but it may be older) that if you compare to earlier > address allocation RFCs, has a far fewer number of "reserved blocks". The blocks in question have not been reallocated. 111.111.111.111 and 222.222.222.222 have PTR records at the root name servers. They have not been allocated and even if they were the InterNIC should not be placing bogus reverse DNS records in place for them. > > The fact that the Internic is trying to make money is true. However, they're > doing it by stretching what little resources they have left, not by allowing > bogus domain entries. I do not think they have started giving out these blocks yet because it simply isn't necessary. There have been some experiments done on them, though. The InterNIC makes no money from IP address allocations; if anything, they lose money. In any case, they will no longer have control of North American allocations after December 22 when ARIN takes over.