Re: [MacPerl] Testing a perl cgi offline

[Eric Dobbs <dobbs@dobbse.net>]

At 1:31 PM -0500 1/8/2000, Paul Schinder wrote:
>There are three address ranges that are reserved for private 
>networks which are guaranteed not to be used by any on-line 
>machines.  IIRC routers are supposed to keep them from ever passing 
>to the public networks.  Using anything else, you run the risk of 
>having the same IP as a real machine on the network.  There's a 
>class A, a class B, and a class C private block.  Use one of those. 
>I don't remember the class C or B numbers offhand, but the class A 
>network is what the Airport hands out to it's clients.  So you can 
>use the address my iBook has at the moment, 10.0.1.96, and be safe. 
>(Anything in 10. is safe.)


The private network addresses are defined in RFC 1597:

Class A  10.0.0.0
Class B  172.16.0.0
Class C  192.168.0.0


-Eric


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