[111267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Mon Feb 2 15:54:50 2009
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:53:35 -0800 (PST)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
--- On Mon, 2/2/09, David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net> wrote:
> I'm curious - Any particular
> technical reason not to assign out of 0.0.0.0/8? Can't say
> I've ever tried to use it, but I'd think it should work.
I have long wondered why two entire /8s are reserved for host self identification (0 and 127, of course...) - it's too bad that we can't use either those or class E space while folks {delay | prepare for} ipv6 adoption...
David Barak
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