[96110] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Tue Apr 17 04:55:32 2007
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:54:58 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20070416231254.GD27453@core.center.osis.gov>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > And I know a company that has been using 1/8, 2/8, 3/8,=20
> 4/8, 5/8, 6/8,
> > 7/8 and 8/8 for many years, also behind NAT or on=20
> non-Internet connected
> > networks. But that is not what I am talking about here.
> ...
>=20
>=20
> And what happens if the legitimate owners of those already allocated
> start advertising routes for them on the public Internet, or IANA
> decides to release some of those not already allocated? =20
> Those NATs, if
> single-NAT'ed, will find themselves unable to reach those resources.
In general, there is simply no Internet connectivity for devices on
these networks. Not eeven LAN connectivity.
> In fact, I think I have seen some of those on the public Internet, I
> could be wrong.
But it is not a military application so who knows what some of the end
users have done with their workstations. There is all kinds of wierd
stuff out there.
--Michael Dillon
