[9736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10.0.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Sat May 31 04:14:46 1997
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
cc: GAVRON@aces.com (Ehud Gavron), jdp@cyberramp.net, nanog@merit.edu,
ler@cyberramp.net
From: Danny McPherson <danny@genuity.net>
Reply-To: danny@genuity.net
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 01:10:02 -0700
> You can have an internal mesh made up of entireley rfc1918 address
> space, and not leak these routes to the rest of the world, I've only
> once caught MCI leaking stuff from a test lab, which was kinda annoying,
> but not really anything bad, and a polite e-mail message to them got
> an immediate fix of the problem.
>
i'd think most providers filter rfc1918 addresses both inbound and outbound at
naps (mci does, i believe), although maybe not to customers...
using reserved address space internally (as long is it remains internal),
seems like a good idea to me - isn't that why it was reserved?
-danny
