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> "Some folk, without any material to justify it, started configuring 1.1.1.1. Now, I can start using your IP address, I suppose, but we're both going to have a problem," Huston told ZDNet, laughing.

Ha, I was using 1.1.1.0/24 as my local intranet as an expirement with dnsmasq a few years back. I got scolded for it, rightly so, but I figured as no-one was using 1.1.1.0/24 at the time it was OK.

I see I am not the only one who did so.

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Who scolded you for it? Wouldn't that just mis-route legitimate traffic to 1.1.1.0/24 locally instead of to the internet?... but you probably had no legitimate traffic there anyway, right?

Who? I don't remember. Someone on HN/reddit. It was a mild scolding in the same vein as in the article.

And yes, that's what it would do. And no, I didn't. Made it easier to type in IPS, that's for sure.

Oh, okay... I thought it was your ISP or something. That is why I was wondering how anyone would even notice.

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