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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:30:54 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Arthur Chance <arthur-list-bsd@erewhon.demon.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Subject:   RE: IP6
Message-ID:  <14974.40190.488124.762638@erewhon.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <53696214@toto.iv>

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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.


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