[ih] The history of "This" 0.0.0.0/8 network?

[Dave Taht]

"Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis at gmail.com> writes:

> Dave,
>
> From RFC 791: "A value of zero in the network field means this
> network.".


A bit short, don't ya think? :) the full ref expounded with.

"This is only used in certain ICMP messages. "

Which ones?


Did the 0 mean that on a shared local lan, it was represented as 0 there,
and transmitted as something else elsewhere? Or vice versa?


>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:37 PM Dave Taht <dave at taht.net> wrote:
>
>     Brian Carpenter just turned me onto this list. As part of an
>     upcoming
>     internet draft, I'd wanted to be able to coherently discuss the
>     origin
>     and original use cases of the "this" network "0" in Arpanet to
>     early
>     ipv4 transition days, and thus far I haven't found much
>     information on
>     it.
>     
>     I'm curious if there is a reference on it somewhere?
>     
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