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Old 13-09-2009, 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by dpastern View Post
I'm not a networking guy (hate it to be honest), but my understand that according to RFC's, 192.168.x.x was reserved for private IP only, no public addressing. There's no way a ISP would make a private IP range available publically.
The ISP won't advertise it into BGP, but it might be visible to customers. It's not good style, but looking at it from their perspective, they could be using private addresses for internal use only servers to save on public addresses that they have to pay for.
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