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Re: NAT addresses - RFC or tradition?

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Subject: Re: NAT addresses - RFC or tradition?
From: Marius-Iulian Corici <marius-iulian.corici@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 20:02:35 +0000
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Tim Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:46:25 -0300, Andre Guimarães wrote
>   
>> It's quite simple.
>> You're using public IPs in your internal networks.
>> Some of these IPs may exist and have an owner an maybe even a web site.
>> You'll be in trouble in the day you wish to acess one of these IPs 
>> on the internet because you won't reach them because you have them 
>> on your network and so won't route the packets to the internet.
>>     
>
> In other words, the RFC addresses are specifically for use in internal
> networks, since they are guaranteed not to be used on the public internet, and
> not routed to by any public internet router.
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