> I had a packet catcher running while I was checkingo out a suspicion I 
> had and I stumbled across some private addresses. Sure enough, my node 
> was trying to connect to 192.168.0.1 -- 26 times in under a minute. What 
> is being done to stop private addresses from polluting the routing tables?
> 
> A related question: how can this be accomplished while allowing Freenets 
> to exist in private blocks with the ability to connect to the larger 
> network as well as directly with each other?

Easy.  Make a configuration options like this:

# Set to "yes" to allow your node to cache private addresses.  Most people 
# do not need to change this.
#
allowPrivateAddress = no

If set to "no", the node dumps any private IP addresses it receives.

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