[ale] [OT] Voicepulse question

[sriad at uab.edu (Aditya Srinivasan)]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, James Baldwin wrote:

> On 7 Dec 2004, at 19:01, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> >> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
> >>> Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> >>>> My ISP (Biltmore Communications) hands out dark addresses.
> >>>
> >>> ??? dark addressess ???
> >> I've always thought that IP addresses behind a NAT were called 'dark' 
> >> ... since you cant see them from the outside.
> >> But a very quick search on google does not seem to indicate any such 
> >> nomenclature.
> >> Will have to think about where I learnt this :)
> >
> > Private ip is the terminology I've always seen.
> 
> RFC 1918 space is the most common reference to such space among network 
> engineers I've seen. "Private ip" space is somewhat ambiguous and is 
> sometimes confused with RIR allocations to private industries. "Dark 
> addresses" could lead one to believe they are assigning currently 
> unallocated netblocks to customers, which is the first thought that 
> crossed my mind when I heard it.


Thanks for the clarification. 


sriad