Subject: Re: host address zero - useable?
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/09/1999 23:21:06
>Um, I didn't mean 0.0.0.0; I meant, for example, 192.1.1.0/24 - that's
>"host address zero" for any given network number.
uh...well...not really. for example, if i had 192.1.0.0/23 assigned
to my network, i could use 192.1.1.0 as a host address. parts of the
internet might not be "happy" with it, but it's certainly legal.
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