From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 15:55:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA26520 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:55:42 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA26514 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:55:41 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA15657; Tue, 18 Apr 95 16:49:06 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504182249.AA15657@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: invalid IPs To: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 16:49:05 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504182039.AA06053@borg.ess.harris.com> from "James Leppek" at Apr 18, 95 04:39:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. It means that everything between you and them is broken. They are not supposed to be externally routed. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.