RFC 6752: Issues with Private IP Addressing in the Internet

The purpose of this document is to provide a discussion of the potential problems of using private, RFC 1918, or non-globally routable addressing within the…

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Outgoing relationships (8 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Normative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Normative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Normative reference — RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Informative reference — RFC 6598: IANA-Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space
Informative reference — RFC 5837: Extending ICMP for Interface and Next-Hop Identification
Informative reference — RFC 6304: AS112 Nameserver Operations
Informative reference — RFC 3021: Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links