On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:56:04 EDT, "Robert E. Seastrom" said:
not as shocked as i am that a co-author of at least ten rfcs and perpetual ietf attendee doesn't recognize an rfc1918 address when he sees it, even when given the big hint of a hostname that does not appear in the global dns.
can you say "lab network"?
I don't know how you run your lab nets, but if I have something on a lab net, it still gets secured the same way as a world-visible machine would. 1) That protects it if ever I add a gateway machine that talks to the world. 2) It keeps you in the habit of securing *everything*. Apparently, the knee-jerk 'ewww' at using telnet, even on a lab network, wasn't ingrained enough to configure ssh instead... Thus there's indeed a high likelyhood that there's still telnet being used in some corner of the production net....