[111244] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnny Eriksson)
Mon Feb 2 13:22:48 2009
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:22:39 WET
From: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:51:58 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
"Paul Stewart" <pstewart@nexicomgroup.net> 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....
Really really LARGE scalability testing that needs more addresses than
RFC1918 gives you. In a closed lab. Yes, it is ugly.
Been there.
Sometimes ugly can not be avoided.
> Paul
--Johnny
