If people don't want whiners niggling them about the RFC 1918 addrs showing up in traceroutes, they should just put RFC 1918 filters on their borders, so that the whiners simply won't get returns to their traceroutes.

-Bennett

I don't know if denying folks the use of legitimate testing tools due to deliberate misuse of RFC 1918 addressing - after all, its title is 'Address Allocation for Private Internet' - is such a hot idea. To quote from the RFC: With the proliferation of TCP/IP technology worldwide, including outside the Internet itself, an increasing number of non-connected enterprises use this technology and its addressing capabilities for sole intra-enterprise communications, without any intention to ever directly connect to other enterprises or the Internet itself. I don't see much ambiguity there concerning the intent of the authors, nor the IETF in accepting their premises. --------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@netmore.net> // 818.535.5024 voice