[ILUG] [OT] private IPs in public dns zones

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Thomas Bridge wrote:

> And makes it a hell of a lot more difficult to debug network
> problems.

true..

> IPv4 usage conservation isn't designed to make life more
> difficult, just make people more sensible in their usage of same.


> How - where?

considering your reminder about routing works.. i see your point. :)

> Any sensible ISP is doing some route filtering - but that doesn't
> stop us receiving packets with a source address of 192.168.1.1
> (it's just if that's the destination, we'll drop it).

doh.

> Why the hell do you need a class B size of space anyway?

i personally don't, but a lot organisations could do with at least a
few bits of space for internal routing.

if that space was easily available i'd use official IPs for all but
subnets dedicated to user workstations/desktops.

> T.

--paulj