[111332] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Feb 3 20:58:07 2009
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090204012537.GB11448@hezmatt.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:56:05 -0800
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Feb 3, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:57:36AM +1100, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
>> OK.
>>
>> Following myself up, and referencing a link someone else gave me in
>> regards
>> to IPv6
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
>>
>> Has the entry:
>>
>> Private use of other reserved addresses
>>
>> Several other address ranges, in addition to the official private
>> ranges,
>> are reserved for other or future uses, including 1.0.0.0/8 and
>> 2.0.0.0/8[1].
>> In recent years, large companies have begun to use this address space
>> internally.
>
> [citation required]
>
> - Matt
I've added a blurb to this page expressing the risks associated with
such
use.
Owen
