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IPv6 Question
- Subject: IPv6 Question
- From: [email protected] (Bill Manning)
- Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 21:04:30 -0700 (PDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> from "Stephen Sprunk" at May 18, 98 06:57:27 pm
>
> Actually, address depletion is not necessarily the motivating factor
> behind private addressing. Private addresses also provide a degree of
> security, since it's not possible to route them over the Internet,
> meaning that someone must get into your network via other means before
> they can hack internal resources.
>
> --
> Stephen Sprunk, KD5DWP "Oops." Email: [email protected]
> Sprint Paranet -Albert Einstein ICBM: 33.00151N 96.82326W
False premise. Nothing prevents ISPs from routing private address space
other than the notation that the space is not for use in the public Internet.
Some other steps have been taken to discourage RFC 1918 address space
from use within the public Internet, but that still does not prohibit
the routing of these addresses.
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--bill