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Re: Reachable addresses on the net (was SYN floods)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Brown)
Thu Sep 5 12:52:12 1996

Date: 	Thu, 5 Sep 1996 19:28:02 +1200
Reply-To: Alan Brown <alan@manawatu.planet.org.nz>
From: Alan Brown <alan@manawatu.planet.org.nz>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  <199609031045.GAA24572@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>

On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, der Mouse wrote:

> You're also hitting a lot of unallocated address space - most of the
> class A space, for example, is unallocated.

That's about to change fairly soon. Don't assume that a "Class A
addressspace" IP is part of a Class A network, because you'll be wrong
more times than right within a couple years.

AB

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