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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:56:04 EDT, "Robert E. Seastrom" said:

> not as shocked as i am that a co-author of at least ten rfcs and
> perpetual ietf attendee doesn't recognize an rfc1918 address when he
> sees it, even when given the big hint of a hostname that does not
> appear in the global dns.
> 
> can you say "lab network"?

I don't know how you run your lab nets, but if I have something on a lab net,
it still gets secured the same way as a world-visible machine would.

1) That protects it if ever I add a gateway machine that talks to the world.

2) It keeps you in the habit of securing *everything*.

Apparently, the knee-jerk 'ewww' at using telnet, even on a lab network, wasn't
ingrained enough to configure ssh instead... Thus there's indeed a high likelyhood
that there's still telnet being used in some corner of the production net....

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