[buug] non-RFC1918 addresses

[f.johan.beisser]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Brian Sobolak wrote:

> Someone in my company is asking for a "non-RFC1918" address.

>  I read the RFC, and if I understood it correctly, it recommends that
> large companies use private IPs (e.g. 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x, etc.) for
> their internal networks as a best practice.

it's not so much 'best practice' as much as limiting the need for large
amounts of IP space usage.

> Is a non-RFC1918 address therefore just a publicly available IP, or is
> there something I'm missing?

it's a routed IP. i don't think you're missing anything. what you may want
to know is why they want it, and how they're planning on using it.

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