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From: "Fredrik Björk" <Fredrik.Bjork.List@varbergenergi.se>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] 150.150. addresses
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 06:42:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-99310580219876@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-99309192123806@msgid-missing>

At 22:24 2001-06-20 -0400, you wrote:
>Are 150.150.*.* adresses private or reserve addresses?
>My friend has a one, and I tried doing an nslookup, ping, and traceroute
>with no luck.


Private address space is defined in RFC1918 (see 
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html):

3. Private Address Space

    The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
    following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:

      10.0.0.0        -   10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix)
      172.16.0.0      -   172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)
      192.168.0.0     -   192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

That is, all addresses beginning with 10., all beginning with 172.16. 
through 172.31. and all beginning with 192.168. are private. You should 
NEVER use other addresses in your private LAN since that can cause trouble 
for you (and normally only you). A customer of mine had set up a private 
LAN with addresses belonging to Pittsburgh board of electricity which would 
cause their LAN to believe that requests to Pittsburgh were local so they 
couldn't be routed out of their office. Not that a swedish company would 
ever be interested in Pittsburgh board of electricity, but you never know 
what problems could occur. (Say for instance that Pittsburgh board of 
electricity hosts the DNS servers for a company that you really want to 
contact...)

On the other hand you should be aware that these addresses won't be routed 
on the Internet and can therefore be used alongside with your public IP 
addresses for switches or other kinds of equipment that you don't need to 
be globally, but only locally available.

/Fredrik


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-21  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-21  2:24 [LARTC] 150.150. addresses adelphia
2001-06-21  2:27 ` Tomasz Orzechowski
2001-06-21  6:42 ` Fredrik Björk [this message]

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