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1. packetcat (staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2019 18:50:37 UTC packetcat

   • packetcat

   "IPv4: Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range, allowing for 16 million new IPv4 addresses. This is part of the IPv4 Cleanup Project, started to increase the number of available unicast IPv4 addresses"

   https://git.kernel.org/linus/96125bf9985a75db00496dd2bc9249b777d2b19b

   https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.3#Networking

   ...

   aight, I'm gonna need a drink, several in fact

   #networking

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   • Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2019 19:03:23 UTC Ruby Rhod

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     • Ruby Rhod
     @staticsafe It's stuff like this that makes me certain that IPv6 transition will never complete.
     
     And can you guess how many firewalls out there will automatically drop this traffic? Try using this as a source address on your LAN and cross a firewall to access another network segment. Fingers crossed!