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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by isostatic on Thursday November 08, 2018 @01:35PM (#18408631)
A /23 with the router in the middle of it? Surely that can't be common. If someone actually chose that (to be annoying or security through obscurity or whatever) then they know what they're doing

DHCP giving out a client address of 192.168.1.0 in the middle of a lagre block sure, but a router?

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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by dcow on Thursday November 08, 2018 @01:44PM (#18408740)
Routers being the “bottom of the block” in a subnet is just convention. In fact I’d say someone with a router in the “middle” of a block probably knows exactly what they are doing.
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Re:Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8 by isostatic on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:46AM (#18413150)
And thus would be able to change it if they actually had a problem with ip stacks failing on valid .0 or .255 ips
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