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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mrouted
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 06:31:56 -0700
Organization: Erols Internet Services
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Isn't 224.0.0.x a local-only address, like 10.0.0.x? If so, then
> 
> No, that's a multicast address.

So I learned when I actually took the time to look it up after Brian
e-mailed me on the topic. However, one point: 224.0.0.0 (the multicast
address in /etc/sysconfig for 2.1R) is forbidden/unused on the Internet.
I had simply been under the mistaken impression that the rest of that
Class-C-sized group was also out of bounds. Mea culpa.
-- 

Ken

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