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I worked for Merrill Lynch around 2000 and they used other people’s public IP addresses on their (theoretically) internal network. Naturally, this went terribl
by sokoloff 3y ago
I worked for Merrill Lynch around 2000 and they used other people’s public IP addresses on their (theoretically) internal network.
Naturally, this went terribly as soon any of their sites had their own connection to the internet.
- carterschonwald 3y agoI’ve been told that this is still a problem at large organizations in that industry.
- wolverine876 3y agoWhy not use the designated private IP ranges? There are more than enough addresses there, unless it's some crazy application with millions of instances each needing an IP. But then use IPv6?
- kjs3 3y agoI had a very large client that was squatting someone else's address space in the pre-WWW days. When I pointed out the problem this would eventually cause and that RFC1918 was the (then) answer, the CTO said "no one here needs to get to the University of Tokyo". I was long gone by the time the SHTF. I had another much smaller client who's leadership insisted that because they were using it the owners would have to just have to not use it. Some sort of imagined IP squatters rights, I guess. I doubt the DoD accommodated them.