On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Ken Chase <m...@sizone.org> wrote: > why not use 192.0.2.0/24 addrs? > > lots of other ranges you could probably use safely. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses > > Using .0 you're asking to exercise bugs and undefined implimentation choices > of various tcp stacks and resolvers out there on myriad devices. Clever > collision > avoidance, but relies on a prayer.
Please stop spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about valid CIDR addresses. :-) > (IIRC try setting an NS record to resolve to 127.0.0.255 on windows 95 - it > used to lock the OS up.... fun times. Someone had pointed some popular domain > at us by accident, and having no entry and no negative caching of the day > meant we were being hammerred on our 10mbps uplink, had to set something to > get cached, so we did... several hours later a microsoft engineer called us > and pleaded with us to use a different IP. :) Microsoft ended support for Windows 95 on December 31th 2001.... Kind regards, Job
