[32750] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Qwest/forthelife.net rfc1918 goodness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Pilosov)
Sun Dec 10 22:19:06 2000
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:15:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
To: Mark Mentovai <mark-list@mentovai.com>
Cc: "Jade E. Deane" <jade.deane@hellonetwork.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mark Mentovai wrote:
>
> I used to think that this was wrong also, and I would never build a
> network like that, but aside from making for ugly traceroutes, there's
> really nothing wrong with it. RFC 1918 doesn't address this issue
It, together with a martian ingress-filters break PMTU-D _IF_ any of the
links between these routers has MTU less than 1500. This topic pops up on
nanog every 4-6 months, but I doubt that it'll make home.net or qwest
change their addressing schemes.
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