Re: Unassigned Networks List

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On 08 Mar 2003 00:48:47 -0600, 
Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg@starken.com> wrote in message 
<1047106127.2050.56.camel@runabout.noc.starken.com>:

> Just something of interest I ran into the other day with a client.  We
> moved them to a new building, and setup their new wireless connection,
> and for the life of me couldn't ping their provider, but everyone
> else. It seems their provider is using 172 and 10.x addresses for
> their wireless towers, and gateways to the internet.  So if I
> traceroute to the client I get public -> public -> private -> private
> -> private -> public.  It didn't work going out from the client at
> first because we drop all reserved addresses on the public NIC of the
> firewall, so we couldn't ping the provider.  I subsequently got in an
> "discussion" with their CTO about RFC 1918 on how it's probably not
> good to be using private IP's to route public traffic, at least IMHO.

..such discussions are better taken in public, so the hotshot can
show off his alledged competence...  ;-)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.