On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Mats Dufberg wrote: > When writing an application for checking delegations, I identified the > following addresses as "bad" for nameservers of "public" zones: > > # 1. Link 0.0.0.0 plus 0.0.0.0/8 > # 2. Localhost net 127.0.0.0/8 > # 3. Privat net 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16 > # 6. Autoconfiguration for DHCP 169.254.0.0/16 > # 7. Example addresses 192.0.2.0/24 > # 8. Multicast 224.0.0.0/5 (224/8--239/8) > > In the draft 2 (partly) and 3 are included. Should the other addresses > also be included?
I didn't want to put in an explicit list, because people would interpret it to be exhaustive. I was trying in the document to establish a principle, not give a recipe. I don't think this is the place to attempt to list all the private addresses - especially with IPv6 at such an early stage with things changing a lot still. 2 is of course a special case, and I mention some of 3 purely as an example. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
