[105186] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .255 addresses still not usable after all these years?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Jun 13 18:59:16 2008
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:58:35 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4852F5F3.1000108@rockynet.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Mike Lewinski wrote:
>> The TCP/IP stack in Windows XP is broken in this regard, possibly in
>> Vista as well, though I've yet to have the displeasure of finding out.
>
> A co-worker confirms that his Vista SP1 can access our .255 router via SSH.
>
Aww, that's too bad. I've long enjoyed setting loopback and other internal
device addresses to .255 -- it drastically reduced some attacks, and made
security by obscurity work better.
Not that I recommend obscurity as the only security. ;-)
