On 14 Jun 1994, pat @
cpd .
tandem .
com quoted from RFC 1597:
> Subject: Re: using socks to hide internal IP addresses
>
> RFC 1597 - Address Allocation for Private Internets
> The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
> following three blocks of the IP address space for private networks:
> 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
> 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
> 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
This implies a mandatory change to all routers on the Internet. The
`anti-RFC1597' proposal points out that this is the kind of change which
the IANA cannot make unilaterally, so there is strong doubt about the
validity of RFC 1597. Ask Eliot Lear <lear @
corp .
sgi .
com> about it.
While this is all very interesting to those of us who suddenly may have
to fiddle with their routers to filter out these address ranges, it
probably doesn't belong in firewalls. Does anyone have an idea where
this discussion should go?
--
Andras Salamon <andras @
is .
co .
za>
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