From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 10: 5:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2ADC37B491 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from erewhon.demon.co.uk ([193.237.124.135]) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14Pq12-000Akz-0V; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:05:29 +0000 Received: from arthur by erewhon.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.20 #4) id 14PknG-000KgU-00; Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:30:54 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14974.40190.488124.762638@erewhon.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:30:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Arthur Chance To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Subject: RE: IP6 In-Reply-To: <53696214@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Consider that companies like Microsoft have entire class B public > subnets assigned to them. [...] It's highly > unlikely that Microsoft has more than 200-300 devices that are > authorized to accept incoming TCP connections initiated from hosts > on the Internet. There's a worse case. A (very) large multinational corporation I've recently stopped working for has a class A network assignment and an official IT policy that no address on it will ever be visible to the outside world. AFAIK all their publically visible web sites have class C addresses and most are hosted by third party companies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message