On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:35:35PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mar 20, 2011, at 6:29 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:44:50 +1100, Skeeve Stevens said: > > > >> http://www.eintellego.net/public/CSINY.s07e17-fakev6.jpg > >> > >> Promoting IPv6 = Win! > >> Dodgy Address = Fail! > > > > Intentional Fail, probably, similar to how most phone numbers on a TV show > > are > > in the 555 exchange. You put a number on TV, and drunk idiots will call it, > > as > > a number of annoyed people found out after Tommy Tutone had an actual hit > > song... 257 seems to be a popular octet value. > > > > (Personally, I'm surprised 148.18.1.193 got used in that image) > > So am I. But I'm surprised 1918 space was used as well. ANY v4 address will > get typed into ping or a browser or something by someone if it is on TV. How > many corporations have 1918 space that their VPN'ed home users are about to > abuse because of that? > > Is 127.0.0.1 / ::1 the Internet version of "555"? Or will "I hurt myself, so > now I'm going to sue you" mean we can't even use that?
I would have used 192.0.2.0/24. It is the IPv4 version of example.com. -- Ina
