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Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?
From: Tore Anderson <tore.anderson () redpill-linpro com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:00:53 +0200
* Job Snijders
In the post-classfull routing world .0 and .255 should be normal IP addresses. CIDR was only recently defined (somewhere in 1993) so I understand it might take companies some time to adjust to this novel situation. Ok, enough snarkyness! Quite recently a participant of the NLNOG RING had a problem related to an .255 IP address. You can read more about it here: https://ring.nlnog.net/news/2012/10/ring-success-the-ipv4-255-problem/
AIUI, that particular problem couldn't be blamed on lack of CIDR support either, as 91.218.150.255 is (was) a class A address. It would have had to be 91.255.255.255 or 91.0.0.0 for it to be special in the classful pre-CIDR world. That said, it's rather common for people to believe that a /24 anywhere in the IPv4 address space is a «class C» so I'm not really surprised. -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
Current thread:
- Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Paul Zugnoni (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Bryan Tong (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Matt Buford (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Dan White (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Job Snijders (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Tore Anderson (Oct 23)
- RE: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Darren O'Connor (Oct 23)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? bmanning (Oct 24)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Tore Anderson (Oct 23)
- RE: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? David Hubbard (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Joe Greco (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Mark Andrews (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Joe Greco (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Mark Andrews (Oct 22)
- Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses? Jimmy Hess (Oct 22)
- Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?) Andy Smith (Oct 23)
(Thread continues...)