[9745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10.0.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Sat May 31 13:55:47 1997
To: doshea@mail.wiltel.net (Dave O'Shea)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com>
Date: 31 May 1997 10:48:47 -0700
In-Reply-To: doshea@mail.wiltel.net's message of 31 May 97 16:19:02 GMT
doshea@mail.wiltel.net (Dave O'Shea) writes:
> >> 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. :-)
As the "normal human in the course of downloading nude .gif's" should be
using Path MTU Discovery, I think you're agreeing....
Tony
p.s. .gif's are obsolete. Most everything is .jpg's, .mpg's, and .avi now.
;-)
