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Re: Internic address allocation policy (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Wed Nov 20 21:51:13 1996

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:45:43 -0500 ()
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199611210234.VAA09077@fellspt.charm.net>

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Snowdog wrote:

> I do not know of any organization that would allow internal network information
> to be made available to an outside party.  I think this ranks pretty
> high up on any security policy.  It would probably not even be possible on 
> correctly secured network.  And on one that wasn't properly secured, you 
> would probably hear lots of complaints about scanning or searching that
> network.  

If the internal network is that "top secret" it should be behind a
firewall and using RFC 1918 space.

-BD


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