[ale] [OT] Voicepulse question

[Aditya Srinivasan]

Hi Geoffrey,

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Geoffrey wrote:

> Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> >>??? dark addressess ???
> > I've always thought that IP addresses behind a NAT were called 'dark' ... 
> > since you cant see them from the outside.
> > 
> > But a very quick search on google does not seem to indicate any such 
> > nomenclature.
> > Will have to think about where I learnt this :)
> 
> Private ip is the terminology I've always seen.

I agree. IP addresses used with NAT are always private ... 10.0.0.0 
/172.16.0.0 / 192.168.0.0
No point using "public" adddresses with NAT. In theory, however one could 
do so.

However private IP addresses can be used without a NAT (an internet with 
no connectivity to the Internet)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html

And hence my (perhaps mistaken) belief that addresses used with NAT were 
specifically called dark addresses. 
Then again ... it may just have been a professor's pet term that got stuck 
in my mind :)

-- 
Thanks,
sriad