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Re: Is this normal?
From: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz () idirect com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:18:27 -0400
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:35:55PM -0700, Larry Diffey exclaimed:
3 180 ms 20 ms 30 ms 10.0.242.77 4 80 ms 50 ms 20 ms 10.0.242.73
As you can see, the third and fourth hop are advertising 10's and ? wouldn't think a provider would want traffic passing through a private address space.
ugh. you have just raised the skeleton of one of the top 3 most popular religious wars in this forum. There is no consensus on this. I personally think it's bad form, but as these addresses are unlikely to appear in anything other than a traceroute, it's probably not hurting anything.
What if I were to tell you that some of these "so called private" servers/machines, have telnet open to the @Home world ? Now that is a problem. Its one thing to route these IP's among your equipment, its another to not restrict customer access to them.
Current thread:
- Is this normal? Larry Diffey (Jun 26)
- Re: Is this normal? Gordon Ewasiuk (Jun 27)
- Re: Is this normal? Scott Francis (Jun 27)
- Re: Is this normal? Wojtek Zlobicki (Jun 27)
- Re: Is this normal? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 27)
