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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: About IP address
Date: 27 Nov 2000 12:55:06 -0800
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Followup to:  <20001127163217.B20394@alcove.wittsend.com>
By author:    "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 	Glad you can't understand it, because it's incorrect.  They can
> be used but they are both assigned to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers
> Authority) as reserved address blocks.  You can't use them because IANA
> controls them and dictates how they might be used if they are ever
> used.  Since there may be broken software out there that mishandles
> those addresses, it's entirely possible that IANA will never use them
> for any routable purpose.  Neither currently have reverse name servers
> assigned, so it's presumable that they are simply not in operation
> and IANA is keeping them reserved to keep them out of trouble.
> 

Most likely, they have put them in a bin saying "potentially
troublesome with old software, assign them last."  As long as there
are other addresses available, they won't be used.

	-hpa
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