From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 06:22:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA21533 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 06:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA21515 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 06:22:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27552; Thu, 30 May 1996 08:22:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 08:22:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer To: Kristyn Fayette cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: RFC for special IPs/Private Networks? In-Reply-To: <199605292107.RAA07633@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Kristyn Fayette wrote: > I remember once seeing in /etc/hosts, or a similar file, a reference to an > RFC for IP addresses that won't be propagated over routers. I'm thinking > that this must have been on the GAMMA or EPSILON release, because it isn't > in my 1.0.2 CD. The current RFC regarding numbers for private internets is 1918. > Can someone tell me what RFC this was? And does anyone know what the > GOTCHAs are for this? I already know that this network can't be directly > on the Internet, but what about with a proxy firewall seperating the two > networks? > -----Kris I'm sure 1918 goes over the implications... Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu