RFC 4085: Embedding Globally-Routable Internet Addresses Considered Harmful

This document discourages the practice of embedding references to unique, globally-routable IP addresses in Internet hosts, describes some of the resulting…

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Outgoing relationships (7 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 3849: IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation
Normative reference — RFC 3330: Special-Use IPv4 Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 2050: Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines
Informative reference — RFC 2782: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)
Informative reference — RFC 2132: DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions
Informative reference — RFC 2030: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI
Informative reference — RFC 2101: IPv4 Address Behaviour Today

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 7094: Architectural Considerations of IP Anycast