Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default

Re:Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default by kazen44 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:17PM (#26559890)

well, rfc1918 addresses just specify which ranges should not be advertised into the default free zone. (aka, the internet routing table). It says nothing about if a network is LAN or not.

One could totally build a network with globally routed addresses, and not announce those addresses to the rest of the world.

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Re:Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default by jodrellblank on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:11PM (#26560462)

> "One could totally build a network with globally routed addresses, and not announce those addresses to the rest of the world."

Could, and people do; I've worked on networks where the original people must have misunderstood networking and did the equivalent of using 10.0.0.0/8, 11.0.0.0/8, 12.0.0.0/8 for internal networks, including public /8s they didn't own, so they lost access to one or two chunks of the internet - and it never seemed to cause all that many problems for them working this way (so no motivation to do a big involved risky rework-everything project). We added new private network subnets for new build things, but never swapped everything over. It'll phase out eventually I guess.

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