On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:22:57PM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, George Bonser wrote: > >> Some of that water is dirtier than the rest. I wouldn't want to be the >> person who gets 1.2.3.0/24 > > The whole /8 should be fun. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnoNet > > To avoid addressing conflict with the internet itself, the range > 1.0.0.0/8 is used. This is to avoid conflicting with internal networks > such as 10/8, 172.16/12 and 192.168/16, as well as assigned Internet > ranges. In the event that 1.0.0.0/8 is assigned by IANA, anoNet could > move to the next unassigned /8, though such an event is unlikely, as > 1.0.0.0/8 has been reserved since September 1981. > > I thought there was some other group that had been squatting in 1/8, > something about radio and peer to peer...but not AnoNet (at least that > name was totally unfamiliar)...but this was all I could find with a quick > google.
Yeah, they're not the only bunch of idiots who think that "unallocated" means "free for all". I'm reliably informed that Hamachi uses 5/8 (for the same reasons as this AnoNet bunch). There's probably others out there. Fun times ahead for moron-fac^Wcustomer-facing support personnel. - Matt
