Re: Ever had one of those days when everything goes right?

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From: Paul Murray
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00

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<lesbell@nospam.lesbell.com.au> wrote in message
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> In aus.computers.linux Paul Murray <pmurray@nospam.bigpond.com> wrote:
> > * Card in my main PC - Win98 installed ok - set ip adress to 20.1.1.1
> > * Modem still works on the net. That's because an ip address belongs to
an
> > interface, not a machine.
> > * Bung network card in linux box - linux autodetects it - set ip to
20.1.1.2
>
> Ahhh! - Well - You see: that was your big mistake. Network 20 is somebody
> else's legal IP address (actually, Computer Sciences Corporation), so
> YOU'RE the reason why the entire Internet crashed yesterday while you
> were fooling around with that Java program. <g>

ROFL! THATS WHO I WORK FOR!!!

I think the reason I used 20 is that I saw it bing used on a machine at
work, so I thought it was some sort of alias.

> Go read RFC 1597, and then set your machines to 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.1.2, and
> the Internet will be safe again! <g>

Is there a url for all the RFCs?

>
> Good effort though (but it won't last! <g>)


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