On 08/05/18 02:12, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>>>>> He doesn't, and should not be using it. If you use a non-private IP
>>>>> range on a local network, you risk all traffic being exposed externally.
>
> Only if the ISP doesn't implement BCP38 (a running gag) and unless the
> Internet routes those addresses back to your local network, the connection
> would be write-only.

Precisely.

But that is only half the story.


BGP would route any accesses to those IP addresses to Sprint which is
who owns them (allegedly) .

It would take insider knowledg to even know that those addresses were
being used on a private LAN and had been connected via a router that
doesn't do NAS.

And indeed there would be liitle point in HAVING them on a private LAN
and connecting them to the internet, without NAT since they would not
work anyway ...


>
>> Well in fact which of us spent years of his life building the Internet?
>
> Al Gore and me.
>
:-)


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