Fwd: 41/8 announcement

Fri May 26 14:44:04 UTC 2006

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Bill Woodcock wrote:

>      On Fri, 26 May 2006, Mikisa Richard wrote:
>    > Can't be sure what they did, but I received an e-mail asking me to check
>    > on my connectivity to them and well, it worked.
>
> Presumably they're double-natting.  I had to do that once for Y2K
> compliance for three large governmental networks that were all statically
> addressed in net-10 and wouldn't/couldn't renumber in time.  In fact,
> there were _specific hosts_ which had the same IP address, and _had to
> talk to each other_.  Gross.  But it can be done.

Please explain how. I simply can't imagine my computer communicating
with another one with exactly same ip address - the packet would never
leave it. The only way I see to achieve this is to have dns resolver
on the fly convert remote addresses from same network into some other
network and then NAT from those other addresses.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net