[3642] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: totd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Golan Ben-Oni)
Fri Aug 2 07:51:06 1996
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 00:35:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Golan Ben-Oni <bnite@tremere.ios.com>
To: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@vii.com>
cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>, nanog@home.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960731110634.9681B-100000@lonepeak.vii.com>
On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Christian Nielsen wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
>
> > > 10 arpanet^255.255.2 (10.255.255.2) 178 ms 228 ms 234 ms
> >
> > Looks like someone wanted to assign a serial network and didn't have time
> > to look at their internal network assignment maps... I advise 'ip unn'
> > for times like that :)
>
> I think that it would be "a good thing" for companies to start using
> the ips in RFC 1918 for internal ips on Serial Interfaces. This way, you are
> able to still reach Serial interfaces via ips where ip unn you can't.
Yes, this is the primary reason why we don't use unn interfaces.
> But, to do so, you would have to have filters on. If not it could cause
> problems.
Indeed .. Even tho we filter these from being announced, we still get
occassional letters from people who assume we are.
- Golan
