[9744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10.0.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave O'Shea)
Sat May 31 12:52:03 1997
From: "Dave O'Shea" <doshea@mail.wiltel.net>
To: "John Hawkinson" <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 11:19:02 -0500
>> The only services that should be affected by the use of such "bogus"
>> addresses will be traceroute and any routing information passed by the
>> device.
>
>Unfortunately that's not quite true.
>
>There are a variety of services which rely on messages received from
>intermediate hops that would break if the the sending host happened
>to filter out RFC1918 addresses and a part of the network
>were using them.
>
>Probably the best example is Path MTU Discovery.
I meant "services used by normal humans in the course of downloading nude
.gif's", i.e., typical Internet customers. I stand by my statement. :-)
