On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:43 AM, David Boyes wrote:
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.
I don't care who you are: you're vanishingly unlikely to be using ALL
of net 10/8; that's 16777214 addresses. 172.16/12 has 1048574
available addresses. 192.168/16 only has 65534. Assuming you're not
subnetting. But even so, you have quite a lot of address space in
those three ranges.
Adam