On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 11:18 +1100, Julien Goodwin wrote: > MS Windows (at least 2k3 server) will simply drop packets with a > source > address of .0 or .255 coming from the legacy class C space, this hit > us > with some Win 2k3 servers that for a bunch of stupid reasons needed to > be connected to from natted hosts, and the next pool IP off the pile > was > a .255 address somewhere in 192.168.0.0/16. Took quite a while to
thanks for explaining the reason for a total waste of 3 hours of my life recently, on a /22 in my case, after a large-scale merger of 1918's I had to replace it with a netinst + Postfix install to get stuff moving again. Did MS understand classless in '03? do they now?
