Re: .255 addresses still not usable after all these years?

["Tim Durack" <tdurack () gmail com>]

Funny this discussion surfaced now - I got bitten by this recently.
Was using .255 for NAT on a secondary firewall. When the primary
failed over, parts of the Internet became unreachable...

Tim:>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Mark Smith
<nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:43:36 -0700
> Kameron Gasso <kgasso-lists () visp net> wrote:
>
> > Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > > go-go-actiontec (vol sends those out, god do they suck...)
> >
> > Crappy CPE's are exactly why we don't hand out .0 and .255 addresses in
> > our DHCP pools. :(
> > --
> > Kameron Gasso | Senior Systems Administrator | visp.net
> > Direct: 541-955-6903 | Fax: 541-471-0821
>
> We avoid them because in the interest of "security", customers who
> would be assigned .0 and .255 have trouble accessing their online
> banking and other financial websites. With IPv4 address space running
> out, we'll probably inevitably have to start handing them out and then
> get our customers to complain to their bank etc.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mark.
>
> --
>
>        "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly
>         alert."
>                                   - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"