At 11:17 01/03/01 -0800, Devin L. Ganger wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:50:22PM +0100, The Pal / Patrik Bodin wrote:
>
> > That it is visible in the traceroute. It's absolutely OK to use private
> > addresses as transport networks between routers, but I would recommend
> > that the address presented to the outer world is either non existing or
> > a valid one.
>
>Why?
>
>For all intents and purposes, RFC1918 addresses are non-existing. As
>long as all the machines that *need* to talk to that router as an
>endpoint know how to route to it, it should be fine.
uhumh?
just see how traceroute works and you see that this is bad.
if my net is using a private addr space, and some ISP router uses the same
net, how can I traceroute through it? can't....
so: using private addressing on publicly available devices is stupid.
cheers,
mouss
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