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Re: rfc 1918?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Feb 23 05:15:47 2001

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:13:40 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2001, Eric A. Hall wrote:

> RFC1918 addreses cause real problems. They are not supposed to be used. It
> cannot be made much clearer than that. Choosing to ignore the wishes of
> the rest of the Internet community in order to make your own life a little
> bit easier is not a question of free will, it is a matter of
> selfishishness.
> 
> Furthermore, if you claim that you have the right to violate spirit and
> intent of Internet BCPs then I certainly have the right to complain about
> it without being labelled as psycho/paranoid/nazi.

Neat. Well, how about we apply your zeal and get packet source address
spoofing sorted out so we at least have a way of tracing broken machines
being used as DoS hosts?

Pretty please? :)



Adrian

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