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Re: SMURF amplifier block list
From: kline () uiuc edu (Charley Kline)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:00:33 -0400
No, IMHO, the comment stands: no matter _what_ size your network is, if you assign host addresses with a .0 or .255 final octet, things may break, and you deserve what you get.
Again, the likelihood that these addresses will cause problems or experience connectivity issues is a far greater concern than the gain of less than 1% of usable address space.
What bullshit. Am I hearing people advocating deliberately breaking perfectly valid addresses in order to not have to tax our poor brains for a proper solution? Filtering out all x.x.x.255 addresses is a very bad idea. It's a quick-and-dirty, poorly-thought-out hack. There are lots of .0 and .255 addresses in use in variously sized net blocks. We don't get to simply say "well too bad." Especially coming from the same people who advocated classless addressing to begin with. The byte boundaries are meaningless. We all said so. Dissapointed, /cvk
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