• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    That’s mostly because it violates established standards, but you know that already. Lol.

    Also, if you’re talking to a network engineer, they probably have PTSD dealing with a client that did this with a 1.0.0.0/8 used internally or some shit and now huge swathes of the internet doesn’t work, but somehow it’s “our fault” that they can’t load random web sites.

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      3 hours ago

      That’s mostly because it violates established standards, but you know that already. Lol.

      Hey, for all you know he might actually be the proper owner of that subnet…

      I know if by some crazy coincedence I had that in my subnet I’d be using it for fun.

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        I recently had a ticket for a university that had a /12 of public IPs. They gave every computer, printer, etc. a public IP on their whole network. Nothing has NAT. It was insane. They could buy an entire other university building with the money they’d make selling some of that address space down to even a /24.

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      6 hours ago

      Fwiw, I now use 10.10.220.0/24. I now know what class A, B and C are. I didn’t then.

      Hopefully that offers you some comfort.