[olug] bad practices at home

[David Walker]

well the picture from the internet side is a little different.  from that
perspective there are no private IPs showing anyway.

I'm a little nervous about losing functionality if they change over to a NAT
scheme but on the other hand I find the frequent scans for ports vulnerable
to various exploits rather annoying and would appreciate it if they could do
something to prevent that.  (on that same subject let me just say that IIS
is evil and should be exterminated.  if in doubt do a web search on google
for "iis exploits" and then one for "apache exploits")

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Roberson [mailto:brian at bstc.net]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:22 AM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: RE: [olug] bad practices at home


I would have to side with Vincent on this. It is bad mojo when you cant
pull out a ip subnet calculator and do proper sub/supernetting. Being as
wide spread as @home, and owning an entire class A subnet, what are they
thinking? However, it is not in any RFC that you must use public ip
space from edge-to-edge. I think the reason they are doing this is that
they are getting ready to cut people over to dhcp/Nat to reduce the
inbound traffic abuse. Also, as a further implementation issue, they
_have_ to run either an IGP or use static routing. Use of a dynamic
routing protocol with private ip's used internally. ( IGP = Interior
gateway protocol ) and then on the edge routers, they redistribute IGP
<-> EGP... I am rather curious as to what they use though...




-----Original Message-----
From: David Walker [mailto:linux_user at grax.com]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:05 AM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: RE: [olug] bad practices at home


I think it's a good idea personally.  There's no reason you need to send
packets to their routers, only through them.  This frees up IPs for
those that really need it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent [mailto:vraffensberger at home.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:58 PM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: [olug] bad practices at home


Has anyone else done a traceroute to or from an @home system lately? I'm
seeing private/reserved 10. addresses!?!

10.88.40.53 (10.88.40.53)  9.320 ms  9.285 ms  24.627 ms

...that's pretty lame...


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