On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:49 AM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
6752 isn't germane; it has to do with using private IP addresses on routers, which borks things up when the router has to generate an ICMP type 3.
I beg to differ, as noted by Owen DeLong in this same thread: On 9 October 2014 22:01, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
Having public addresses in trace-routes, ideally with good reverse DNS is actually useful. Clarity is almost always an advantage over obscurity when one is troubleshooting something. Being able to ping the link address is useful for troubleshooting. Being able to source packets from a particular link address can be useful for troubleshooting.
Several of the very same caveats apply - that's why I cited the informational RFC with regards to private IP addressing, rather than re-typing the same things all over again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Equo ne credite, Teucri. -- Laocoön