[111271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Feb 2 16:40:57 2009
To: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:53:35 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:40:51 -0500
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:53:35 PST, David Barak said:
> I have long wondered why two entire /8s are reserved for host self
> identification( 0 and 127, of course...)
It's part of the whole '2**32 addresses should be enough" viewpoint (keep
in mind they were coming from NCP, that had a limit of 256 addresses).
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