Re: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 7:00 PM + 8/1/03, John Neiberger wrote: [This isn't the usual type of follies question where you have to figure something out. In this case, you either know the answer or you don't. If you don't, you can probably figure out how to look it up and it would be good information to have in case

Re: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread Charles Cthulu Riley
Three words MY-CROW-SOFF? John Neiberger wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [This isn't the usual type of follies question where you have to figure something out. In this case, you either know the answer or you don't. If you don't, you can probably figure out how to look it up and

Re: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread Jason Viera
Bill Gates leaving his mark on your network?? Jason [This isn't the usual type of follies question where you have to figure something out. In this case, you either know the answer or you don't. If you don't, you can probably figure out how to look it up and it would be good information to

Re: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread John Neiberger
Possibly, but you have to give more detail to win the prize. :-) [Notice: there is no prize associated with this question. ] Jason Viera 8/1/03 2:22:32 PM Bill Gates leaving his mark on your network?? Jason [This isn't the usual type of follies question where you have to figure

RE: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread John Neiberger
Yes! Daniel mentions the RFC and Kevin Wigle mentioned APIPA, or Automatic Private IP Addressing. You can find out more about that at: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/APIPA.html This means that Daniel and Kevin get to share the extra credit prize! Thanks to all who participated, John

RE: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread Daniel Cotts
pad pad pad ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3330.txt -Original Message- From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371] [This isn't the usual type of follies question where you

Re: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread Kevin Wigle
APIPA leaving for someone else to take further. - Original Message - From: John Neiberger To: Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:00 PM Subject: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371] [This isn't the usual type of follies question where you have to figure something out. In this case,

Re: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread annlee
Actually, Apple used that block as well for local networking. quote: If the host has a Microsoft Windows OS (9x or 2000/XP) or an Apple OS, it will fall back to what is called the auto-configure address, which is an address from the 169.254/16 address space (this was in accordance with the

Re: Friday Follies #2 [7:73371]

2003-08-01 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 9:04 PM + 8/1/03, annlee wrote: Actually, Apple used that block as well for local networking. quote: If the host has a Microsoft Windows OS (9x or 2000/XP) or an Apple OS, it will fall back to what is called the auto-configure address, which is an address from the 169.254/16 address space