[H-GEN] interesting routing

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Christopher Preston wrote:

> At least he was checking the logs!

True :)
  
> > BTW, 10.0.0.100 was _always_ present in the traceroute.
> 
> Interesting, I did a traceroute several times, and _never_ saw that
> route. I actually have a 10.0.0.* network here also - perhaps that is
> influencing things?

Quite possibly.  Any attempt to ping 10.0.0.100 (which is what traceroute
does at each step afaik) would get caught by your eth0 route to 10.0.0.0.
 
> > Normally the private IPs should only be visible inside an organisation,
> > and not visible to the outside world.
> 
> Is that a rule or a guideline ;)

As much of a rule any other RFC (which collectively define the Internet  
and how it works :)
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
                                robert.brockway at uq.net.au
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