Using private APNIC range in US

Charles Mills w3yni1 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 15:06:16 UTC 2010


I love war stories.  I once got chewed out by a colleague <?> from
another organization because we were using "their" address space.

We were using 10.0.0.0/8.  Explanation of NAT and RFC1918 was met with
a deer in the headlights look.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Matt Shadbolt <matt.shadbolt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I once had a customer who for some reason had all their printers on public
> addresses they didn't own. Not advertising them outside, but internally
> whenever a user browsed to a external site that happened to be one of the
> addresses used, they would just receive a HP or Konica login page :)
>
> They didn't mind though. No idea if they've changed it since.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> On 3/18/2010 14:30, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>> > On 3/18/10 2:35 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
>> >> Does anyone know if the University of Michigan or Cisco are going be
>> updating their systems and documentation to no longer use 1.2.3.4 ?
>> >>
>> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=1.2.3.4+site%3Acisco.com
>> >>
>> >> I know that the University of Michigan utilize 1.2.3.4 for their captive
>> portal login/logout pages as recently as monday when I was on the medical
>> campus.
>> >>
>> > Dunno about cisco.
>> >
>> > med.umich.edu seems to run their own stuff, separately from umich.edu,
>> and
>> > quite badly.  I've complained about their setup repeatedly over the past
>> > several years.  No traction.
>>
>> Is it something about Medical Schools?
>>
>> When we were first putting together the campus network, Surgery was
>> running a Token Ring (I thought "Vampire Tap" was a fitting item for
>> their inventory) running in Class D space as I recall.
>>
>> > Should we try again, jointly?  ;-)
>>
>> Towards the end, there were people who insisted I must rout their net to
>> the Internets.
>>
>> I declined.
>> --
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>> (A republic, using parliamentary law, protects the minority.)
>>
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>>
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>>
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>



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