adveritising private ip's
They are using a private IP address in the final hop of a tracert. I think this is a big no no.
They reply to my friends post with this
"It is not uncommon to see a private IP address in a network traceroute. As long as the router on each side of the private IP knows where to send the packets, all is well. It is actually more secure to have a router with a private IP, as it would prevent anyone except those directly connected to it from accessing it.
It is also not uncommon to see routers that do not reply to traceroute packets. ICMP ping and UDP trace packets are not necessary for the network to function, so they may be filtered or throttled. ICMP is low priority, so it will be dropped under periods of high load so that TCP traffic can flow normally.
The best way to test connectivity and throughput to your server is to download a file, preferrably random data since it cannot be compressed. On a Linux server you can create a file for testing like this:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=testfile bs=1M count=10
On Windows server, any large .exe or .zip file can be used."
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance.
