RE: [tlug] DNS [was: dhcp.conf]

["Jim BLACKSON" <blackson@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull writes: 
> *sigh*  As long as we're opening up worm cans ....  More archival
spew.

Here is a little dash of salt. :-)


> Finally, there are private networks (which overlap with the functional

> definitions above).  There is the localhost set of addresses beginning

> with 127 (I'm not sure what anything except 127.0.0.1 is used for, but

> all 16 million of those addresses are reserved).  Then there are the 
> nontrivial private networks: 256 networks of the form 168.192.x.0, 
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^

That private network IP address should be 192.168.x.0 [1]

> 16 networks of the form 172.x.0.0, and one network of the form
10.0.0.0.

HTH,
jimb.

[1] RFC 1918:  Address Allocation for Private Internets
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918
See section 3. Private Address Space