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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by isostatic on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:39AM (#16849691)
A whole 16 million IPs were allocated in 10.0.0.0/8 for private use, and "10" is pretty easy to remember. Trouble is people then used it.

By the time 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, and 203.0.113.0/24 were allocated in RFC5737, it was too late.

IPv6 makes human IP addresses meaningless, but even they I believe they allocated 2001:DB8::/32

What a stupid address range for examples

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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by prepend on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:47AM (#16849778)
> IPv6 makes human IP addresses meaningless

Tell that to my blog dead:beef:dead:beef:dead:beef:dead:beef

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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by chiph on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:44AM (#16849740)
The 10.x region is the reason that a former employer is such a huge user of NAT. They'd acquire a business who were also using that range, and they'd integrate the networks via NAT because it was too hard & dangerous to change the acquired company's devices & services.
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