[26646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selection of Appropriate Local SMTP Relay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Forrest W. Christian)
Tue Jan 11 01:51:09 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:47:38 -0700 (MST)
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>,
nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> why not use the 127.0.0.0/8 space ... :)
I've heard that suggestion several times.
The underlying problem is that you have routes in most peoples routing
tables which look like:
Network Address Netmask Gateway Address Interface
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
And as such, anything bound for 127.x.x.x won't exit most boxes.
Instead you want something which looks like a "normal" IP address and will
get routed towards the ISP.
- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ
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