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Re: A Splendid Example Of A Renumbering Disaster

Pete Resnick <presnick@qti.qualcomm.com> Mon, 26 November 2012 21:27 UTC

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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:27:02 -0600
From: Pete Resnick <presnick@qti.qualcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: A Splendid Example Of A Renumbering Disaster
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On 11/26/12 2:56 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Pete Resnick
> <presnick@qti.qualcomm.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 11/23/12 7:46 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
>>      
>>> http://b.logme.in/2012/11/07/changes-to-hamachi-on-november-19th/
>>>
>>> LogMeIn Hamachi is basically a NAT-traversing layer 2 VPN solution.  They
>>> avoided conflicts with RFC 1918 space by hijacking IPv4 space in 5/8, now
>>> actively being allocated by LIRs in Europe.  When that didn't work (see link
>>> above), they moved to 25/8, allocated to the UK MoD. [...]
>>>
>>> By the way, is this an application that the new shared transition space
>>> might benefit?
>>>        
>>
>> Yes, like Benson, I am at a loss for why they do not use RFC 6598 addresses.
>> That's what someone should tell these goofballs to do.
>>      
> Unfortunately, RFC1918 and RFC 6598 are not enough to number all that
> needs numbers.
>    

I'm sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying that Hamachi needs more 
than a /10? Or are you saying that other people need more than a /10 and 
the 1918 /8, /12, and /16? If so, please explain.

pr

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