[101505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 host addresses in supernets.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JAKO Andras)
Tue Jan 8 13:15:19 2008
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:13:51 +0100 (CET)
From: JAKO Andras <jako.andras@eik.bme.hu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <86ve64xmdg.fsf@seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> At Inter.Net, we specifically excluded .0 and .255 from our DSL pools
> so as to not screw up the day of people running outdated Windows
> software any more than it was already screwed up.
According to Microsoft KB 281507
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281579
even "XP Home" and "Server 2003 Standard" are affected.
Could anyone share some pointers to test results or any other listing of
broken and correct IP stacks regarding this issue?
Andras
