[15662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nanog] Re: Someones being naughty again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S.T.Balbach)
Sat Mar 14 10:40:50 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 10:20:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "S.T.Balbach" <stephen@clark.net>
To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
cc: Blake Willis <blakew@cais.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980314002631.15492i-100000@alive.znep.com>
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Marc Slemko wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Blake Willis wrote:
>
> > IMHO, the decision to use private IP space for hosts/routers/interfaces in
> > a network is really a matter of necessity or security. I am familiar with
> > a few corporate networks with nationwide WANs (as well as a major ISP or
> > two) that use 10.0.0.0/8 and other private networks for all their backbone
> > equipment, simply because they lack the public address space to do
> > otherwise. Others do it for the very reason that their equipment is
> > unreachable from the outside world. Whatever the reason, as long as you
> > keep it within your own AS and don't announce or listen to it from
> > anywhere else, there is nothing wrong with setting a network up this way.
>
> No. The assumption that life is as simple as that is the biggest
> problem with most uses of private IP space.
Another problem is mergers. If you ever merge with another company, hope
they dont use the same private IP space.
Stb
