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Re: rfc 1918?

  • From: John Hawkinson
  • Date: Thu Feb 22 16:35:03 2001

> > There are good reasons to want to get those packets (traceroutes from
> > people who have numbered their networks in rfc1918 networks, f'rinstance).
> 
> The original note specifically showed them as being TCP packets from
> a 10.x.x.x address going to port 80.  Does that qualify as a good reason?

Err, no, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to filter rfc1918
packets based on specific protocols.

> > Not everyone agrees whether it is better to filter or not to filter,
> > but there are good arguments on both sides.
> 
> Does anybody in the house think that these packets actually have a snowball's
> chance in Hades of getting a reply back sucessfully?

No, but that's really a thoroughly orthogonal question.

--jhawk