[GTALUG] Linux Kernel Allows 0.0.0.0/8 as a Valid Address Range

[James Knott]

On 2019-08-14 12:20 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
> As a final thought, often the needs of the developing world are
> overlooked by our more developed societies. It could hardly be fair to
> to those comnunities, which have gone to the trouble and expense of
> joining the connected world to say to them now, all that equipment we
> juat sold you a few years ago is obsolete now, you will have to
> upgrade or lose service.

Actually, in some ways the developing world is ahead of the game here. 
They didn't have the built up IPv4 infrastructure that we have.  The
same thing happened with cell phones.  There are many parts of the world
where people who had never seen a wired phone, suddenly had cell service.