[123944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using private APNIC range in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Holstein)
Thu Mar 18 12:06:55 2010
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:04:56 -0400
From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
To: Jaren Angerbauer <jarenangerbauer@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4c6b8c911003180852t6565a56fs6819aac1c6d5bbe4@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I have a client here in the US, that I just discovered is using a host
> of private IPs that (as I understand) belong to APNIC (i.e.
> 1.7.154.70, 1.7.154.00-99, etc.) for their web servers.
Those aren't "private" IPs .. (in the RFC1918 sense) .. those are public
IPs. They just weren't assigned until recently.
> accessible it must be working for them. I'm just wondering if there
> is any recommendation or practice around this -- using private IP
> ranges from another country. Thanks.
>
>
Since they're already using NAT, it shouldn't be hard to renumber them
into the appropriate RFC1918 space.
Cheers,
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
