Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

[Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>]

> On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
> > There's no way it's as widely used, and generally speaking, it appears
> > that those who have used it have done so out of ignorance and(/or?)
> > stupidity, sometimes blindly following documentation without
> > comprehending, etc.
>
> I don't know about that. Before we abandoned our prior managed-hosting facility for stuff we managed ourselves, ALL 
> of the servers they were managing were using 1.0.0.0/8 for their "internal" address schemes. And this is a pretty 
> decent sized company (Terremark) who I would have thought would have had a clue on it. 
>
> That said, I agree "people who didn't listen to RFC1918 deserve every bit of pain that they've got coming to them", 
> but I bet there's more morons out there than you're giving the universe credit for.

Given the sheer number of 10-net deployments that are out there, I have a
hard time envisioning that there are even two orders of magnitude less
1-net deployments.  

... JG
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