Linux Kernel Allows 0 0 0 0 8 As A Valid Address Range
According to a blog post, written by Dave Taht, director of the Make-Wifi-Fast and committed by David Stephen Miller, an American software developer mentions that the use of 0.0.0.0/8 has been prohibited since the beginning due to two main issues. Why the use of 0.0.0.0/8 was prohibited until now? The use of 0.x.y.z was later revoked in RFC1122. The reason was — the original ICMP-based mechanism for learning the network prefix wasn’t working on many networks such as Ethernet....