Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!ucbvax!VAX.FTP.COM!stev From: stev@VAX.FTP.COM Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Running out of Internet addresses? Message-ID: <8812021447.AA22753@vax.ftp.com> Date: 2 Dec 88 14:47:48 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 *I would try very hard to avoid your proposed solution - we've *been badly hurt by groups who've thought they'd never be linked *to the Internet, have re-used some numbers, only to discover they *need to be linked and have gone through much pain to deal with the *problems. CERN is one such place and I gather there are others. *Vint we found a large number of people were using IP addresses based on the ones they found in the documentation examples or what their other machines came configured with by default. we ship our code with the address 0.0.0.0, which the code realizes isnt useful, and complains at you about it and exits. *so*, we went through our docs and gave all examples with addresses on *our* network in a non-existant subnet. (hopefully, we will be the only people screwed by this if one of them connects). how about either assigning a class C network for documentation and default addresses, or someone who got one for this use letting us all know what it is and that we can use it? if everyone would band together and use it, we might be better off . . . . . . stev knowles stev@ftp.com