APNIC returning 223/8 to IANA

Fri Mar 21 21:41:41 UTC 2003

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:11:47PM -0500, bdragon at gweep.net wrote:

> Would you agree, as I've suggested, that there is no inherent
> technical limitation to using 223.255.255.0/24?

FWIW, I still see 'classful behavior' with WindowsXP (all recent
service packs and such like) and also Solaris 2.7 (not sure about
later releases, I'm guessing it's still there though).

My point here is that many years after CIDR we still get weird
anomalies in IP stacks --- so I wouldn't bet on anything being safe
unless well tested.

  --cw