172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated

Thu Aug 23 05:50:40 UTC 2012

On 8/23/12, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:29:22 -0500, "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." said:
>> 172.0.0.0-172.15.255.255 was allocated on 2012-08-20 to AT&T Internet
>> Services.
> Why shouldn't it work?  RFC1918 space is 172.16/12, there's no overlap.

I know that, you know that.   but
172.0.0.1  is a common typo of  127.0.01

And there are apparently a lot of people running around using 172.0.0.0/24
in examples, or erroneously saying it's part of a range reserved for
private networks.

https://www.google.com/search?q="172.0.0.0%2F24"+howto&ie=utf-8

So I would say they've come into posession of a rather undesirable
piece of IP address real-estate, as it were.

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-Mysid