Question on 7.0.0.0/8

Tue Apr 17 08:54:58 UTC 2007

> > And I know a company that has been using 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, 
> 4/8, 5/8, 6/8,
> > 7/8 and 8/8 for many years, also behind NAT or on 
> non-Internet connected
> > networks. But that is not what I am talking about here.
> ...
> 
> 
> And what happens if the legitimate owners of those already allocated
> start advertising routes for them on the public Internet, or IANA
> decides to release some of those not already allocated?  
> Those NATs, if
> single-NAT'ed, will find themselves unable to reach those resources.

In general, there is simply no Internet connectivity for devices on
these networks. Not eeven LAN connectivity.

> In fact, I think I have seen some of those on the public Internet, I
> could be wrong.

But it is not a military application so who knows what some of the end
users have done with their workstations. There is all kinds of wierd
stuff out there.

--Michael Dillon