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From: meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: zero as a subnet number
Keywords: reasons
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Date: 8 Mar 91 18:29:56 GMT
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I know that this was just posted, but since we do not have a zero subnet
number (class B, 255.255.255.0 subnet mask), I didn't pay attention to it.

There is now a net connected to us with a zero subnet, and I need to give
them a detailed explaination of why this is not a good idea.  I found that
I cannot explain this accurately enough.  Could someone please email me a
concise, reasoned explaination?

Sorry to waste bandwidth - Murphy's Law of news and email:

If you pitch it, you'll need it.  If you archive it, you'll run out of
disk space.

thanks - /mde/