"Erik E. Fair" <fair@clock.org> writes:
> Now we live in the time of limited IP address space allocations, where
> every address counts, and we have to use our address space efficiently. It
> seems a waste to reserve both host address 0 and host address max for any
> given network number.

Wasn't all zero's supposed to mean "this host", which some idiot at
Berkeley decided to burn an entire Class A (127) for instead?

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