[111233] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Mon Feb 2 12:21:16 2009
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:20:25 -0500
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <20090202.180357.71143925.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:03:57 +0100 (CET)
sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> > What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a
> > closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done
> > sometimes....
>
> There are sometimes good reasons to do this, for instance to ensure
> uniqueness in the face of mergers and acquisitions.
How does that help? If you are renumbering due to a merger, couldn't
you just agree on separate private space just as easily?
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