[ale] [OT] Voicepulse question

[Geoffrey]

Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> Hi Geoffrey,
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
>> 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 :)

I was speaking in the context of your post, as you mentioned your ISP
'hands out dark addresses', hence the reference to nat.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey