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echo: nthelp
to: Mike N.
from: Geo
date: 2006-01-27 23:33:08
subject: Re: firewalls

From: "Geo" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:iuokt1dhdarku56l5ph2859q2jm0at4ab7{at}4ax.com...

>    They haven't been allocated yet: they probably think they're protecting
> the user from unreachability:
>   false filters taking out network 0.0.0.0
>   LANs natted to 0.0.0.0
>   LANs natted to 1.2.3.4
>
>    I'd be curious how much of the world would be unable to reach one of
> these public networks.

I see this as an advantage, an address that's immune to the clueless.. 

Geo.

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