From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 15 06:37:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA01974 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:37:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from tornado.cisco.com (tornado.cisco.com [171.69.104.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA01962 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:36:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (bmcgover-pc.cisco.com [171.69.104.147]) by tornado.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id JAA00558; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:36:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA08694; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:36:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Message-Id: <199712151436.JAA08694@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> To: marcs@znep.com, totii@est.is, sthaug@nethelp.no cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re: Weird IP addresses Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:36:04 -0500 From: Brian McGovern Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk None of the explanations are true. The fact of the matter is the Internic has broken down most of their "Reserved" Class A, and B blocks in order to make as many C blocks as possible. There was an RFC published a while back (I remember it in the six month timeframe, but it may be older) that if you compare to earlier address allocation RFCs, has a far fewer number of "reserved blocks". The fact that the Internic is trying to make money is true. However, they're doing it by stretching what little resources they have left, not by allowing bogus domain entries. And yes, you can do whatever you like to your local DNS, and it doesn't have to be "correct". Remember, however, that if the rest of the net tends not to agree with you, whatever you do locally will have little impact on the 'Net as a whole.