Maybe I'm misreading this but...
Dean Anderson
dean at av8.com
Fri Oct 16 18:54:28 UTC 1998
Yes.
--Dean
At 01:12 PM 10/16/98 -0400, tvo wrote:
>Doesn't this break MTU path discovery though?
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>On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, I Am Not An Isp wrote:
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>> At 05:11 PM 10/14/98 -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
>> >
>> >The following traceroute seems to indicate, according to ARIN, that
>> >someone is running routers for spammers in the IANA Reserved netspace?
>>
>> [SNIP]
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>> >> 8 bs-jackson-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.65.226) 107 ms 132 ms
96 ms
>> >> 9 172.17.80.46 (172.17.80.46) 59 ms 53 ms 44 ms
>> >>10 172.21.210.18 (172.21.210.18) 122 ms 96 ms 49 ms
>> >>11 209.149.111.17 (209.149.111.17) 53 ms (ttl=118!) 58 ms (ttl=118!)
>> 150 ms (ttl=118!)
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>> >What's going on here?
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>> Barry, 172.16.0.0/12 is part of RFC1918 space. There is no prohibition of
>> addressing routers with these addresses, and in fact I do not know of a
>> router that will route RFC1918 space differently than any other IP address.
>> (Of course, you can put in filters, and many people do, but you can filter
>> any addresses exactly the same way.) This is a perfectly legitimate use of
>> RFC1918 space, as long as those hosts expect no connectivity outside their
>> own network. Many people use RFC1918 on WAN links and whatnot to preserve
>> their ARIN allocations for "real" hosts. Read the RFC for more info.
>>
>> > -Barry Shein
>>
>> TTFN,
>> patrick
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>> I Am Not An Isp
>> www.ianai.net
>> "Think of it as evolution in action." - Niven & Pournelle
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