[olug] bad practices at home

[Jon]

Telechoice has alwasy given out Class C addresses but they ill map an internet address to your Class c if you ask.  I have heard of some service providers doing mapping but blocking low port numbers to discourage servers.

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:21:35AM -0500, Brian Roberson wrote:
> I would have to side with Vincent on this. It is bad mojo when you cant
> pull out a ip subnet calculator and do proper sub/supernetting. Being as
> wide spread as @home, and owning an entire class A subnet, what are they
> thinking? However, it is not in any RFC that you must use public ip
> space from edge-to-edge. I think the reason they are doing this is that
> they are getting ready to cut people over to dhcp/Nat to reduce the
> inbound traffic abuse. Also, as a further implementation issue, they
> _have_ to run either an IGP or use static routing. Use of a dynamic
> routing protocol with private ip's used internally. ( IGP = Interior
> gateway protocol ) and then on the edge routers, they redistribute IGP
> <-> EGP... I am rather curious as to what they use though... 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Walker [mailto:linux_user at grax.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:05 AM
> To: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: RE: [olug] bad practices at home
> 
> 
> I think it's a good idea personally.  There's no reason you need to send
> packets to their routers, only through them.  This frees up IPs for
> those that really need it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent [mailto:vraffensberger at home.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:58 PM
> To: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: [olug] bad practices at home
> 
> 
> Has anyone else done a traceroute to or from an @home system lately? I'm
> seeing private/reserved 10. addresses!?!
> 
> 10.88.40.53 (10.88.40.53)  9.320 ms  9.285 ms  24.627 ms
> 
> ...that's pretty lame...
> 
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