In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Sparks writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>> A border router knows what is "inside" and "outside" your network, while
> >>> a DNS server does not. Important difference.
> >> You're missing the point.  This is not about inside and outside networks, 
> it
> >> is about rfc1918 responses from internet queries.
> > 
> > I'm afraid I have seen too many organizations using a mix of public and
> > RFC1918 IP addresses on the "inside". Thus I don't believe that you can
> > differentiate based on RFC1918 addresses or not on a general basis.
> 
> This is incorrect, you can always differentiate based on rfc1918 addresses.
> When a 3rd party gives you a rfc1918 address it is invalid.

        Except it may not be.  Networks are way too complicated to
        make such general assumptions.

        Mark
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