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Re:Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the i... by dharmab on Sunday June 18, 2023 @09:41PM (#36386365)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5771#section-9.2

> The first /24 in this range, 233.252.0.0/24, is assigned as "MCAST- TEST-NET" for use in documentation and example code. 233.252.0.0/24 SHOULD be used in conjunction with the [RFC2606] domain names example.com or example.net in vendor and protocol documentation. Addresses within 233.252.0.0/24 MUST NOT appear on the public Internet.

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Re:Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the i... by autoexecdotbat on Sunday June 18, 2023 @09:59PM (#36386497)
Well dang I should've thought that through before asking the question. Should've realized up in the 220-230 range was going to be mcast reserved. Can't help but acknowledge the irony in not throughly reading the docs for the documentation reserved range though.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses/multica...

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