[AusNOG] Telstra using US DOD IP's like they are RFC1918

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at arbor.net
Fri Apr 22 13:08:04 EST 2016


On 22 Apr 2016, at 10:03, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> I find it hard to believe that Telstra couldn't convince their vendors 
> to make a (hidden) knob somewhere to make this IP space reachable on 
> their software.

I advocated this many years when I worked for a major vendor of 
telecommunications equipment, to no avail.

Unfortunately, it's baked into so many things and so much software that 
there's no practicable way to reclaim it for use.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>


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