[rescue] Printing to the 'net

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Wed Aug 8 15:37:34 CDT 2001


On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1918.html
>
> The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following
> three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
>
>      10.0.0.0        -   10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix)
>      172.16.0.0      -   172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)
>      192.168.0.0     -   192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

Which breaks the wonderful peer to peer "any IP can talk to any other"
nature of the net.

I'm not saying 1918 was a mistake, but I am happy that site-local is not a
direct analog in v6.

-James




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