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Re: The use of .0/.255 addresses.


From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () gettcomm com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:18:23 -0400


At 10:03 PM -0400 6/26/04, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

This is what happens when your educational system continues to teach
classful routing as anything other than a HISTORICAL FOOTNOTE
*coughCiscocough*. This is also how you end up with 76k /24s in the global
routing table.

Do you part to help control the ignorant population: whenever you hear
someone say "class [ABC]" in reference to anything other than a historical
allocation, smack them. Hard.

May I take this opportunity to remind people of my Atlanta 1998 (IIRC) NANOG tutorial on ISP addressing, "Good Providers have No Class"?


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