Dave Taht writes:
> The longstanding prohibition against using 0.0.0.0/8 dates back
> to two issues with the early internet.
>
> There was an interoperability problem with BSD 4.2 in 1984, fixed in
> BSD 4.3 in 1986. BSD 4.2 has long since been retired.
>
> Secondly, addresses of the form 0.x.y.
The longstanding prohibition against using 0.0.0.0/8 dates back
to two issues with the early internet.
There was an interoperability problem with BSD 4.2 in 1984, fixed in
BSD 4.3 in 1986. BSD 4.2 has long since been retired.
Secondly, addresses of the form 0.x.y.z were initially defined only as
