More often than not, network admins would set the egress/ingress filters for these addresses where it leaves/enters the network to/from the internet (rather than to/from customers).
Ian Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > I get the following output when I do a traceroute from my Windows XP > machine, which is directly connected to a Road Runner cable modem > (Motorola Surfboard), to 192.168.100.1: > > C:\>tracert 192.168.100.1 > > Tracing route to 192.168.100.1 over a maximum of 30 hops > > 1 * * * Request timed out. > 2 62 ms 125 ms 66 ms 24.93.66.37 > 3 87 ms 220 ms * 24.93.66.150 > 4 * 24.93.66.177 reports: Destination host unreachable. > > This seems weird to me, since 192.168.100.1 is an RFC 1918 local address > space. I can't think of any valid reason that a packet destined for it > would go *two* hops into Road Runner's network before getting a > destination host unreachable. Is there something I'm missing? > > Thanks, > Ian ~Hani Mustafa
