On 2001-03-01 11:17, Devin L. Ganger wrote to The Pal / Patrik Bodin about...:
DLG> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:50:22PM +0100, The Pal / Patrik Bodin wrote:
DLG>
DLG> > That it is visible in the traceroute. It's absolutely OK to use private
DLG> > addresses as transport networks between routers, but I would recommend
DLG> > that the address presented to the outer world is either non existing or
DLG> > a valid one.
DLG>
DLG> Why?
DLG>
DLG> For all intents and purposes, RFC1918 addresses are non-existing. As
DLG> long as all the machines that *need* to talk to that router as an
DLG> endpoint know how to route to it, it should be fine.
As a courtesy to people that end up wanting to talk to the router? There are
legal occasions where people may want to ping or traceroute. If you don't want
that you might as well make it transparent.
/P
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