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sebastian büttrich

@sindarina
I hardly dare say it, but in a recent network deployment I assisted with, the head of IT had insisted real routable random IPs be used in their private network, as private ones were to easy to guess and thus abuse ...
I shall not disclose where ...

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Zimmie

@sebastian @sindarina I know of a network equipment vendor which used a real, public address block belonging to a real, much larger company internally in a product they shipped. There were a few companies which were customers of both. Hilarity ensued.

The same network equipment vendor now uses 192.0.2 internally in a major product. Their reasoning is nobody should be using it, therefore *they* should use it.

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