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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: any known users of NetRange 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
On Thursday, 2002-09-26 at 20:42 AST, hostmaster <[email protected]> wrote: > I have this very odd email address found with one of our employees.... > <[email protected]> > > Here's my questions: > > - Given that 1918 deals with allocation issues for "private Internets", is > there a recording entity of this special address space beyond the formal > IANA, which details the distribution of data from any "private Internet" > once it enters the public Internet vice versa ? > > - Whom to anyone's knowledge is known to be using (for special projects) or > perhaps misusing this 172.17.0.1 ? This mail is likely from a spammer or (even more likely) from a misconfigured sender behind a NAT gateway. There are lots of folks using addresses in this range on the private nets; some of it, unfortunately leaks to the Internet (all to no good). Tony Rall
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