Re: [nznog] Use of .0 and .255 in address pools

On 22/01/2009, at 11:44 AM, bmanning(a)vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

for a few years, I've put my SMTP service on a .0 address and DNS services on .255 - its been more than a decade since CIDR notation became the norm... nothing majik abt .0 or .255 - save the bounding addresses on a block delegation.

One host connecting to another host with a .0 or .255 address is a bit different to assigning a .0 or .255 address to a CPE with IPCP though. I haven't heard of any horror stories in a while, but, you never know. I guess if the addressing is dynamic, the user will restart their CPE and get a new address, and it fixes itself... Crude though. -- Nathan Ward