Re: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread mikelieman
Some nitwits just grab one out of fat air. I've seen 192.169.xx and 192.254.xx randomly used before. On Feb 2, 2009 12:03pm, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done

RE: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Matlock, Kenneth L
I've even seen at a previous place (note: 'previous') that decided to use 40.x.x.x for their internal IP space I find it hard to believe a company can mismanage their IP space that 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0, and 172.(16-31).0.0 are all used up, but then again, I shouldn't be surprised. Back in

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:20:25 EST, D'Arcy J.M. Cain said: On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:03:57 +0100 (CET) sth...@nethelp.no wrote: What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done sometimes There

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread sthaug
There are sometimes good reasons to do this, for instance to ensure uniqueness in the face of mergers and acquisitions. How does that help? If you are renumbering due to a merger, couldn't you just agree on separate private space just as easily? It would ensure that you could get the

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/02/02 07:16 PM mikelie...@gmail.com wrote: Some nitwits just grab one out of fat air. I've seen 192.169.xx and 192.254.xx randomly used before. Seen 198/8, 196.200/16 and 172.whatever the hell the admin felt like/16 And these people are shocked when I tell them to renumber before

RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le lundi 02 février 2009 à 19:22 +, Johnny Eriksson a écrit : Paul Stewart pstew...@nexicomgroup.net wrote: What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done sometimes Really really LARGE

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Dorn Hetzel
On a related note, do you think that 0.0.0.0/8 (excluding 0.0.0.0/32, of course :) ) will be feasible for allocation and use ? On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Leo Vegoda leo.veg...@icann.org wrote: On 02/02/2009 8:10, Bruce Grobler br...@yoafrica.com wrote: Most ISP's, if not all, null

RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Bruce Grobler
Most ISP's, if not all, null route 1.0.0.0/8 therefore you shouldn't encounter any problems using it in a private network. -Original Message- From: Michael Butler [mailto:i...@protected-networks.net] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 5:59 PM To: t...@kingfisherops.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:53:35 PST, David Barak said: I have long wondered why two entire /8s are reserved for host self identification( 0 and 127, of course...) It's part of the whole '2**32 addresses should be enough viewpoint (keep in mind they were coming from NCP, that had a limit of 256

RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Stewart
What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done sometimes Paul -Original Message- From: Trey Darley [mailto:t...@kingfisherops.com] Sent: February 2, 2009 10:48 AM To: nanog@nanog.org

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread sthaug
What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done sometimes There are sometimes good reasons to do this, for instance to ensure uniqueness in the face of mergers and acquisitions. Steinar Haug,

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Trey Darley t...@kingfisherops.com wrote: Some colleagues and I are running into a bit of a problem. We've been using RFC 1918 Class A space but due to the way subnets have been allocated we are pondering the use of public IP space. As the network in question

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On måndag, måndag 2 feb 2009 16.15.06 -0200 Andre Sencioles Vitorio Oliveira ase...@gmail.com wrote: What about this? Genius from company A chooses public IP block A. Genius from company B chooses public IP block A. Genius collision detected... What you do is go to your LIR and ask for

RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Michael Hallgren m.hallg...@free.fr: Really really LARGE scalability testing that needs more addresses than RFC1918 gives you. Use IPv6. For an IPv4 scalability test? Interesting idea... Apart from the basic incompability here, my opinion of IPv6 is that it just gives you 2^96 more

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Trey Darley wrote: Some colleagues and I are running into a bit of a problem. We've been using RFC 1918 Class A space but due to the way subnets have been allocated we are pondering the use of public IP space. As the network in question is strictly closed I don't

Peer Filtering

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi folks... I would like to know whether folks are limiting their peering sessions (BGP peering at public exchanges) only by max-prefix typically? Are we the only folks trying to filter all peers using IRR information? We've run across several peers now with 10,000+ prefixes who do not

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:17:23 GMT, Johnny Eriksson said: Michael Hallgren m.hallg...@free.fr: Really really LARGE scalability testing that needs more addresses than RFC1918 gives you. Use IPv6. For an IPv4 scalability test? Interesting idea... Might wanna consider that if you're

RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Blake Pfankuch
Using public IP space in general is typically just asking for trouble. I worked with an ISP once who decided to use 192.0.0.0/24 for IP's to customers who didn't need a static ip. They did it not knowing what they were doing (oh you mean 192.0.0.0/8 isnt rfc1918) but very quickly they had to

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:03:57 +0100 (CET) sth...@nethelp.no wrote: What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done sometimes There are sometimes good reasons to do this, for instance to ensure

Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Trey Darley
Hi, y'all - Some colleagues and I are running into a bit of a problem. We've been using RFC 1918 Class A space but due to the way subnets have been allocated we are pondering the use of public IP space. As the network in question is strictly closed I don't anticipate any problems with this as the

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Leo Vegoda
On 02/02/2009 8:10, Bruce Grobler br...@yoafrica.com wrote: Most ISP's, if not all, null route 1.0.0.0/8 therefore you shouldn't encounter any problems using it in a private network. 1.0.0.0/8 will be allocated in the not too distant future. All currently unallocated unicast IPv4 /8s will be

Re: Peer Filtering

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = Paul Stewart ; I would like to know whether folks are limiting their peering sessions (BGP peering at public exchanges) only by max-prefix typically? Are we the only folks trying to filter all peers using IRR information? No, you're not the only ones. We've run across

RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Barker
It's not unheard of to see the government cyber squatting unallocated /8 blocks too. -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:49 PM To: sth...@nethelp.no Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space i am

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Randy Bush
Apart from the basic incompability here, my opinion of IPv6 is that it just gives you 2^96 more addresses to repeat all the old mistakes with. Not quite.. 2^96 = 79228162514264337593543950336 2^128-2^32 = 340282366920938463463374607427473244160 not quite. let's posit 42 devices on

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:25:40 +0900, Randy Bush said: Apart from the basic incompability here, my opinion of IPv6 is that it just gives you 2^96 more addresses to repeat all the old mistakes with. Not quite.. 2^96 = 79228162514264337593543950336 2^128-2^32 =

Re: Peer Filtering

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = John van Oppen ; Here in the US we don't bother, max-prefix covers it... It seems that US originated prefixes are rather sporadically entered into the routing DBs. ...and you are not worried about someone leaking a subset of routes? I understand that most failure cases

RE: Peer Filtering

2009-02-02 Thread John van Oppen
Yep agreed...We balance that by keeping the max-prefix no more than about 40% over the current prefix limit on each peer. For us it is a trade-off, accept the routes or don't send the traffic to peering. The couple of times I have seen route leaks that involved one or two routes they were

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Anthony Roberts
Let's face it - they're going to have to come up with much more creative $200/hour chucklehead consultants to burn through that much anytime soon. It has been my experience that when you give someone a huge address space to play with (eg 10/8), they start doing things like using bits in the

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Anthony Roberts wrote: Let's face it - they're going to have to come up with much more creative $200/hour chucklehead consultants to burn through that much anytime soon. It has been my experience that when you give someone a huge address space to play with

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used one trillion IP addresses. Are you sure? According to ARIN staff, current implementation of policy is that all requests are approved since there are no defined criteria that would allow them to deny