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by cameroncooper 364 days ago
Looks like modified placeholder addresses because the author didn't want to use real addresses. I don't think it could be used for internal routing since each octet is represented with a single byte (0-255) so having larger numbers for some internal routing would likely break the entire IP stack.
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Yes the author needs to be beaten over the head with RFC 5737.