Home network - big question!

[Edward C. Lang]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:39:12PM +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, David wrote:
> > There are two ip blocks you can use for local networks, 192.168.x.x and
> > 10.0.x.x (Not sure about this one).
> 
> To quote from RFC 1918:
> 
> The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
> following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
> 
> 	10.0.0.0    - 10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix)
> 	172.16.0.0  - 172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)
> 	192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

There are bunches of reserved addresses. What are they all for?

Netblock: 1.0.0.0 - 1.255.255.255        Netname: RESERVED-9
Netblock: 2.0.0.0 - 2.255.255.255        Netname: RESERVED-2
Netblock: 5.0.0.0 - 5.255.255.255        Netname: RESERVED-5
Netblock: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-10
Netblock: 23.0.0.0 - 23.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-23
Netblock: 27.0.0.0 - 27.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-27
Netblock: 31.0.0.0 - 31.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-31
Netblock: 36.0.0.0 - 36.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-36
Netblock: 37.0.0.0 - 37.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-37
Netblock: 39.0.0.0 - 39.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-39A
Netblock: 41.0.0.0 - 41.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-41A
Netblock: 42.0.0.0 - 42.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-42
Netblock: 58.0.0.0 - 58.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-58
Netblock: 59.0.0.0 - 59.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-59
Netblock: 60.0.0.0 - 60.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-60
Netblock: 69.0.0.0 - 79.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-7
Netblock: 82.0.0.0 - 95.255.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-11
Netblock: 96.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255     Netname: RESERVED-8
Netblock: 128.0.0.0 - 128.0.255.255      Netname: RESERVED-3
Netblock: 197.0.0.0 - 197.255.255.255    Netname: RESERVED-13
Netblock: 201.0.0.0 - 201.255.255.255    Netname: RESERVED-14
Netblock: 220.0.0.0 - 223.255.255.255    Netname: RESERVED

Regards,

Edward.

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