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Re: RFC1918 addresses to permit in for VPN?

  • From: Andrew Brown
  • Date: Fri Dec 29 13:57:23 2000

>This is one of the benchmarks of cluelessness. The other is that the
>addresses don't have reverse DNS.  As has been said here, many times,
>using RFC1918 addresses on interfaces, breaks Path MTU discovery, due to
>martians filters on network boundaries.

they might actually have reverse dns set up for those addresses, but
i, of course, have no idea what server to ask about it.  :)

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