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Private network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Internet Protocol terminology, a private network is typically a network that uses private IP address space, following the standards set by RFC 1918 and RFC 4193. These addresses are common in hom...
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are reserved as private address space, specified in the RFC 1918. This means everybody can set up an internal network using addresses in these blocks, but packets originating from those addresses should never appear on the internet.
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Network Working Group; Request for Comments: 1918; Obsoletes: 1627, 1597; BCP: 5; Category: Best Current Practice; ... [RFC1466] Gerich, E., "Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space", RFC 1466, Merit Network, Inc., May 1993.
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Rekhter, et al Best Current Practice [Page 4] RFC 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets February 1996 Moving a host from private to public or vice versa involves a change of IP address, changes to the appropriate DNS entries, and changes to configuration files on other hosts that reference the host by IP address.
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A separate and far more pressing concern is that the amount of routing overhead will grow beyond the Rekhter, et al Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets February 1996 capabilities of Internet Service Providers.
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Respond here or Discuss On the Forums ... arshan Says: June 11th, 2009 at 11:56 pm ... aren’t these attacks slightly, well, redundant/overkill, since an evil admin could push evil routes that would filter all your traffic through their malicious and controlled IP space?
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