[111312] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skeeve Stevens)
Tue Feb 3 17:28:35 2009
From: "Skeeve Stevens" <skeeve@skeeve.org>
To: "'David Coulson'" <david@davidcoulson.net>,
"'Bruce Grobler'" <bruce@yoafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: <49875357.3020503@davidcoulson.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:30:22 +1100
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: skeeve@skeeve.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Well Quest is stupid for allowing unallocated space to transit it's network.
I've seen ISP's in which a traceroute to 192.168.0.1 got into their network,
and to their upstreams before being killed off at some point.... sheesh
-----Original Message-----
From: David Coulson [mailto:david@davidcoulson.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2009 7:11 AM
To: Bruce Grobler
Cc: 'NANOG list'
Subject: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
I can mtr to 1.1.1.1 via Qwest :-)
Bruce Grobler wrote:
> Yep!, go ahead and trace it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Conrad [mailto:drc@virtualized.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:48 PM
> To: Bruce Grobler
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
>
> On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Bruce Grobler wrote:
>
>> Most ISP's, if not all, null route 1.0.0.0/8 therefore you shouldn't
>> encounter any problems using it in a private network.
>>
>
> Is this true?
>
> This will cause endless entertainment when IANA allocates 1.0.0.0/8
> sometime within the next two or three years...
>
> Regards,
> -drc
>
>
>
