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RE: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Aug 23 05:31:44 2010

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:31:34 +0100
In-Reply-To: <135798.1281965216@localhost>
From: "Leigh Porter" <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	"Joe Greco" <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

I very often see 1918 space in ICMP responses. It's quite dumb.

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]=20
Sent: 16 August 2010 14:27
To: Joe Greco
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:50:00 CDT, Joe Greco said:

> > What *possible* use case would require a 1918-sourced packet to be=20
> > traversing the public internet? We're all waiting with bated breath=20
> > to hear this one. ;)
>=20
> It's great for showing in traceroutes who the heel is.

Like I said, at that point it's name-n-shame time.


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