[123689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Mar 12 21:34:32 2010
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:34:17 -0800
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <201003130106.o2D16hmn023046@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: matthew@matthew.at
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe Greco wrote:
>
> So:
>
> I "decided" to use 5/8 for our internal networks because I felt that it
> stretched my fingers too much to go all the way over to "1" and then over
> to the other end of the top row to "0." 5 seemed a happier and easier
> choice.
>
>
The Hamachi P2P VPN client beat you to it... they decided to use
5.0.0.0/8 several years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamachi
Matthew Kaufman
