[123705] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Sat Mar 13 13:41:48 2010
From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
In-Reply-To: <201003122145.o2CLjM9K015540@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:41:16 -0500
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
> There's no way it's as widely used, and generally speaking, it appears
> that those who have used it have done so out of ignorance and(/or?)
> stupidity, sometimes blindly following documentation without
> comprehending, etc.
I don't know about that. Before we abandoned our prior managed-hosting =
facility for stuff we managed ourselves, ALL of the servers they were =
managing were using 1.0.0.0/8 for their "internal" address schemes. And =
this is a pretty decent sized company (Terremark) who I would have =
thought would have had a clue on it.=20
That said, I agree "people who didn't listen to RFC1918 deserve every =
bit of pain that they've got coming to them", but I bet there's more =
morons out there than you're giving the universe credit for.
D
