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Re: Is this normal?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Jun 27 11:38:35 2001

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To: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
Cc: Larry Diffey <ldiffey@technologyforward.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:19:08 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:19:08 PDT, Scott Francis said:

> ugh. you have just raised the skeleton of one of the top 3 most popular
> religious wars in this forum. There is no consensus on this. I personally
> think it's bad form, but as these addresses are unlikely to appear in anyth=
> ing
> other than a traceroute, it's probably not hurting anything.

It also hoses PMTU Discovery if your router does RFC1918 ingress filtering
and one of the 10.x.x.x router addresses sends back a 'must fragment'.

But hey, we all knew that. ;)
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech


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