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Re: rfc1918 ignorant

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Wed Jul 23 16:55:34 2003

To: dave@ordinaryworld.com (Dave Temkin)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:54:54 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0307231349300.27647-100000@ordinaryworld.com> from "Dave Temkin" at Jul 23, 2003 01:50:05 PM
From: bdragon@gweep.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Needs is a tough call.  Plenty of networks block ICMP at the border and
> could very well be using 1918 addressing in between and you'd have no
> idea.
> 
> -- 
> David Temkin

Wholesale blocking of ICMP is another sign of incompetence. Either way
a network using RFC1918 inappropriately, filtering all icmp, or both
is a clueless network.



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