Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4

Wed Jun 17 21:54:47 UTC 2015

You'll find as well, a lot of hosts (eg, I know at least Windows XP)
won't forward to Class E destinations.

-Tom

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Ray Soucy <rps at maine.edu> wrote:
> There is already more than enough address space allocated for NAT, you
> don't need to start using random prefixes that may or may not be needed for
> other purposes in the future.
>
> For all we know, tomorrow someone could write an RFC requesting an address
> reserved for local anycast DNS and it could be assigned from this block.
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Luan Nguyen <lnguyen at opsource.net> wrote:
>
>> Is that safe to use internally? Anyone using it?
>> Just for NATTING on Cisco gears...
>>
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