Companies using public IP space owned by others for internal routing
Jens Link
lists at quux.de
Sun Dec 17 23:25:29 UTC 2017
Matt Hoppes <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net> writes:
> Had a previous employee or I discovered it on the network segment after
> we had some weird routing issues and had to get that cleaned up. I don't
> know why anyone would do that when there is tons of private IP space.
Excuse 1: "We'll never connect to the internet!"
Excuse 2: "It's only temporary!"
Excuse 3: Typo (At some customers customer I found 192.!168 address which
where apparently a typo but in use for years so nobody wanted
to change it.) I also know one company who is using (has
used?) 2001:8db::/48. I suggested to get v6 PI an properly
implement IPv6 but never heard from them again.
Excuse 4: "We used the addresses from out training material." - I heard
this story some time ago: A large German government agency
wanted to implement IP(v4) and the people attended a course
about this new TCP/IP stuff at $Vendor. The training material
was prepared by a student who was using his university's /16 as
an example.
BTW: Is the Cisco WLC 1.1.1.1 as default address for DHCP?
Jens
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