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Re: Whois 172/12

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sun Jan 15 03:36:04 2012

In-Reply-To: <36A214A4-0627-4921-83B0-37766996844A@ianai.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:05:17 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Jesus. 172.16/12 fine .. that's rfc1918.   The rest of 172/8 is mostly
unallocated.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wro=
te:
> Read RFC1918.
>
> Likely a machine on his local network (i.e. behind the same NAT box) is h=
itting him.
>
> But that is not guaranteed. =C2=A0A packet with a source address of 172.0=
.x.x



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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)


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