(FWD) Re: Dirserver believes your ORPort is unreachable

Matt Ghali matt at snark.net
Mon Oct 24 18:19:28 UTC 2005


RFC1918 ranges do not include networks that are unnassigned by RIRs.
Networks documented in 1918 will *never* be assigned.

If you are fltering on netblocks unassigned by registries, you 
should be aware of when they do become allocated/assigned, or stop 
doing that.

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Eugene Armstead wrote:

  I figured out what my problem was.  It seems that the old rfc1918 
  reserved for much more than the 10, 172, and 192 networks as seen 
  here http://www.ris.ripe.net/prefix-stat/200303.html.  My firewall 
  was blocking rfc1918 private/reserved address spaces according to 
  the old implementation that providers seem to be allocating 
  addresses to nowadays.  One of the directory servers is on an old 
  reserved address space and my firewall was keeping it from seeing 
  my or.
  
  -- 
  Eugene Armstead, Jr.
  Armstead Enterprise
  W:  www.armsteadent.com
  E:  eugene at armsteadent.com
  


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