Many years ago I ran across a large company that had a large internal network. It purposely used IP addresses that were already assigned to others. They didn't want their internal numbers to conflict with the numbers assigned to their externally visible devices. Sort of a split view approach. Seemed very risky to me.
Steve On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM Jan Schaumann <jschauma= [email protected]> wrote: > Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nobody liked this idea at the time and it withered on the vine. I seem > to remember one reaction being (paraphrasing) "this is a draft that > literally recommends doing nothing, we don't need a draft for that" which I > don't quite agree with but which made me smile at the time. > > :-) > > In addition, I kind of feel that a good way to > guarantee that somebody will use the domain is to > claim that it is never used anywhere. > > People will take that as a way to do all sorts of > weird things. "We _know_ this domain isn't used > anywhere else, so we can just it to do X." > > (See e.g., the use of Class E network space by > different companies and organizations.) > > -Jan > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Sent by a Verified sender
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