Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:30:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Arthur Chance <arthur-list-bsd@erewhon.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: RE: IP6 Message-ID: <14974.40190.488124.762638@erewhon.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <53696214@toto.iv>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Consider that companies like Microsoft have entire class B public > subnets assigned to them. [...] It's highly > unlikely that Microsoft has more than 200-300 devices that are > authorized to accept incoming TCP connections initiated from hosts > on the Internet. There's a worse case. A (very) large multinational corporation I've recently stopped working for has a class A network assignment and an official IT policy that no address on it will ever be visible to the outside world. AFAIK all their publically visible web sites have class C addresses and most are hosted by third party companies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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