18.0.0.0/8

Fri Dec 20 18:20:45 UTC 2002

On 12/20/2002 at 13:11:56 -0500, Joe Abley said:
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> On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 13:02 Canada/Eastern, jcvaraillon wrote:
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> > 4Today the network 18.0.0.0/8 disappeared from the Internet, it is now 
> > reachable.
> >  
> > I went to different looking glass (MAE East, LINX, GRnet) and 
> > 18.0.0.0/8 was not in their routing table.
> >  
> > Is it related to a major problem?
> 
> Yes. Not enough people understand RFC1918.

Including me, apparently, since RFC1918 makes no mention of 18/8.
And including MIT, probably, since that's their /8.

Unless somebody between MIT and the outside world screwed up something
involving RFC1918, and you're just being cryptic?