[H-GEN] lost the plot... most likely

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Byron,

> >well I know that BUT no one is using the range 192.160.0.0 ->
> 192.160.0.255
>
> That is very much not the point.
>
> There are more than half a million IP addresses in the private space, and
> absolutely no reason and no acceptable justification to not use
> that space
> -- that's what it's for.  Setting it up wrong now means you will
> have to fix
> it later, effectively doubling your workload.
>
> It may seem trivial, but bad habits formed now can haunt you later..

I agree.  The whole reason for allocating private address ranges is so that
people using these ranges CANNOT conflict with other people who may also be
using these addresses - they are non-routable.

By using a public address space not legitimately allocated to you means that
there is the distinct possibility of your machines conflicting with other
machines on the Internet at some point in the future.  I remember a large
$oftware coMpany at one stage incorrectly patched a switch into the wrong
port and this resulted in their entire office being live on the Internet and
not behind ANY firewall.  This ONLY occurred because they were using a
public address space - if they were using 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0, etc then
there could have been no problems.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no plausable excuse for ANYONE using public
address space not specifically assigned to them, whether this is behind a
firewall on machines that will "never" be connected to the Internet.  None.

Regards,
Hilton


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