From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 17:06:39 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA28077 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:06:39 -0700 Received: from ain.charm.net (ain.charm.net [198.69.35.206]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA28068 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:06:36 -0700 Received: (from nc@localhost) by ain.charm.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA01295; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:01:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator To: James Leppek cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: invalid IPs In-Reply-To: <9504182039.AA06053@borg.ess.harris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, James Leppek wrote: > > Ok what does this mean? that something should respond to a ping or not? > > I thought the reason these numbers were reserved was that everyone(routers) > were supposed to ignore them if they ever appeared on the internet. > > So if I do traceroute and someone in the 204.157 domain is responding > does that mean something is a miss? or that they were given the numbers... > > I have been telling folks to use those reserved numbers for their private > networks because they should/would never appear on the net. I guess I was > wrong :-( > Oh well, lost count of my mistakes long ago :-) > As a matter of fact. There is a system called zod.clark.net that is completely announced to the whole world that has the address: 192.245.235.1. And the 192 net is reserved completely and utterly. Go figure... -Jerry.