The key as I understand it, is this is not propogated between providers. As
this is internal to one provider, you can use private networks to conserve
address space. We do this all the time with firewalls,etc. You won't be
able to get to the address from outside our network though.
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> I did a traceroute to one of US West's customers... got some interesting
results:
>
> 13 206 ms 179 ms 123 ms gig0-0-0.phnx-sust1.phnx.uswest.net
[206.80.192.253]
> 14 1016 ms 151 ms 975 ms 207.224.191.2
> 15 233 ms 124 ms 123 ms 192.168.8.1
> 16 151 ms 179 ms 123 ms 192.168.100.147
> 17 247 ms 192 ms 151 ms vdsl-130-13-102-120.phnx.uswest.net
[130.13.102.120]
>
> RFC 1918 - "Address Allocation for Private Internets" indicates
192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix) is reserved
> for private internets. Hops 15 and 16 in my traceroute show that
addresses within this range are being used publically.
>
> Did I miss something? Have the "for private use only" IP addresses now
been given the green light to be used within the internet?
>
>
> -- Leigh Anne
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