[54296] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 18.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Israel)
Fri Dec 20 13:21:17 2002
From: Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:20:45 -0500
To: North America Network Operators Group Mailing List <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Re: 18.0.0.0/8 (Joe Abley)
Reply-To: davei@algx.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 12/20/2002 at 13:11:56 -0500, Joe Abley said:
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> On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 13:02 Canada/Eastern, jcvaraillon wrote:
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> > 4Today the network=A018.0.0.0/8 disappeared from the Internet, it i=
s now=20
> > reachable.
> > =A0
> > I went to different looking glass (MAE East, LINX, GRnet) and=20
> > 18.0.0.0/8 was not in their routing table.
> > =A0
> > Is it related to a major problem?
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> Yes. Not enough people understand RFC1918.
Including me, apparently, since RFC1918 makes no mention of 18/8.
And including MIT, probably, since that's their /8.
Unless somebody between MIT and the outside world screwed up something
involving RFC1918, and you're just being cryptic?