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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by ghshephard on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:51PM (#18408194)
I wouldn't bet my life on it, but I've never experienced a problem with an IP address ending in 0, and I've been using them for over 10 years. Our primary VPN end-point used to end in .0 - so we had lots of opportunity to find chance for breakage. :-)
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by ryan-c on Thursday November 08, 2018 @01:14PM (#18408426)
I have, actually. Most of our networks were /23s, and the syslog server was a .0 in the middle of one. An SMS sending appliance we bought would not accept IPs ending in .0. Fortunately, the check was client-side in javascript, and once overridden, everything worked.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by duskwuff on Thursday November 08, 2018 @02:55PM (#18409387)
IIRC, IPs ending in .0 or .255 were unreachable from some older Windows systems.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by oasisbob on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:25PM (#18409655)
That's been my experience too.

Even in 2003, the network I was involved in was handing out .0s out of larger CIDR blocks in DHCP leases with no issues.

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