Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:40:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: crh@outpost.co.nz (Craig Harding) Cc: treznor@sunflower.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reserved IP Addresses Message-ID: <200102161940.MAA06372@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3A8C809C.E01A7B8C@outpost.co.nz> from "Craig Harding" at Feb 16, 2001 02:21:32 PM
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> I happen to know for a fact (from talking to my friend who runs a local > ISP) that Telecom NZ uses 192.168.x.x addresses internally for various > parts of their ADSL network, and even have things sufficiently > misconfigured to announce those addresses into his router (which caused > him great surprise initially, he couldn't figure out why the office > machines on a 192.168.x.x subnet behind NAT suddenly couldn't talk to > anything - Telecom had announced a route for that subnet). Which begs the question: why did his router accept those announcements, considering that the addresses are non-routable? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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