[30135] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: RFC 1918
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rdobbins@netmore.net)
Sun Jul 16 14:20:58 2000
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From: rdobbins@netmore.net
To: bet@rahul.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:21:53 -0700
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>If people don't want whiners niggling them about the RFC 1918 addrs
>showing up in traceroutes, they should just put RFC 1918 filters on
>their borders, so that the whiners simply won't get returns to their
>traceroutes.
>-Bennett
I don't know if denying folks the use of legitimate testing tools due to
deliberate misuse of RFC 1918 addressing - after all, its title is 'Address
Allocation for Private Internet' - is such a hot idea.
To quote from the RFC:
With the proliferation of TCP/IP technology worldwide, including
outside the Internet itself, an increasing number of non-connected
enterprises use this technology and its addressing capabilities for
sole intra-enterprise communications, without any intention to ever
directly connect to other enterprises or the Internet itself.
I don't see much ambiguity there concerning the intent of the authors, nor
the IETF in accepting their premises.
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