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| On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:24:35PM +0100, Toad wrote:
|| On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:45:02AM +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote:
|| > Not all of them apparantly, 5.0.0.0/8 is marked IANA RESERVED.

|| We check for local and LAN-only addresses currently. One might make an
|| argument for checking for "reserved" addresses, and multicast-reserved
|| addresses, but what we have now is normally sufficient.

| Clearly not.  It makes no sense *not* to reject all reserved ranges, as 
| this would easily solve the problem of locally attached IP devices using 
| them, as in Nick's case.

you don't know if it's reserved now, unless you ask iana in real
time. iana will in all likelihood allocate out of 5.0.0.0/8 sooner or
later, in contrast to rfc1918 addresses. the phone hijacking
unassigned address space seems broken. but the computer probably
doesn't have the default route going there given that then everything
would break. so why not just use the default route, like it was
before? i can't see how you could hope to do better outguessing it...

  -- erno

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