[5069] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: all [0s|1]'s subnets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@isi.edu)
Mon Oct 7 12:53:35 1996
From: bmanning@isi.edu
To: zachary@zachs.place.org (Zachary DeAquila)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:46:26 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0vAIRi-0001BnC@zachs.place.org> from "Zachary DeAquila" at Oct 7, 96 11:22:21 am
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> I keep running into people (Ascend tech support, joeblow ISP tech support off the street)
> that say that it's improper to use the all 0s or all 1's subnets (ie .0 and whatever
> has .255 in it). Since CIDR, I thought the philosophy was 'use everything', but I can't
> seem to find the explicit recommendation to start using the .0 subnet... can anyone
> help with a pointer to the pertinent RFC ?
>
> --Zachary
>
RFC 1812
RFC 1878
RFC 1879
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--bill
