Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

Wed Oct 20 06:32:10 UTC 2010

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 11:18 +1100, Julien Goodwin wrote:
> MS Windows (at least 2k3 server) will simply drop packets with a
> source
> address of .0 or .255 coming from the legacy class C space, this hit
> us
> with some Win 2k3 servers that for a bunch of stupid reasons needed to
> be connected to from natted hosts, and the next pool IP off the pile
> was
> a .255 address somewhere in 192.168.0.0/16. Took quite a while to 

thanks for explaining the reason for a total waste of 3 hours of my life
recently, on a /22 in my case, after a large-scale merger of 1918's
I had to replace it with a netinst + Postfix install to get stuff moving
again. Did MS understand classless in '03? do they now?