On 2007-08-08 09:40, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
...
Some widespread IPv4 stacks refuse to handle these addresses, so nobody would
ever want to use them on the public IPv4 Internet.
That will be a bit of a challenge in private networks too :-)
Brian
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C:\>ver
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
C:\>ping -n 1 247.1.2.3
Pinging 247.1.2.3 with 32 bytes of data:
Destination specified is invalid.
Ping statistics for 247.1.2.3:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),
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% uname -ro
2.6.22-8-generic GNU/Linux
% ping 247.1.2.3
connect: Invalid argument
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