On 1/14/09 11:32 AM, "Rob van der Heij" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don't do this. It will cause all sorts of random problems that you'll deeply >> regret later. > > Tee hee hee. The "random" problems are expected when your company gets > bought by IBM or when you outsource your business to IBM since > duplicate IP addresses would occur. That's one of the reasons IBM is > using official 9. IP addresses even internally for systems that don't > connect straight to the Internet: just to avoid collisions when > networks get merged in the future. This is also why Sun stopped using real addresses in their documentation examples. Too many people actually set their systems up to run using Sun's actual address space and when they connected to the public Internet, Extremely Weird Things happened, followed by mass renumbering projects.
