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Article #1392Re: Demon uses up 158.152.x.x Address Space
From: Malcolm S. Muir
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <47og8c$9g9@netty.york.ac.uk> pete@ohm.york.ac.uk "-bat." writes: > gcl@demon.net (Gerry Lawrence) writes: > > Software developers/programmers should be aware that any existing > > or future code should _not_ rely on all Demon's dialup users being > > allocaded IP addresses in the 158.152 address range. > > I have to ask who on earth would do such a thing anyway ? What possible use > does hard codeing the IP address of a particular firm serve anyway ? Has > anyone out there actually done such a thing ? > > fascinated, One reason that applied to the Demon DIS software was to make it easier to set up. Another is to make it harder to use it on other networks. Remember Demon wrote it and give it away by anonymous ftp. -- ============================================================================= Malcolm S. Muir EMAIL: malcolm@demon.net Sunderland CIX: mmuir BIX: mmuir England CSERVE: 100012,31 ======================= PGP 2.3 Public Key Available ========================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10bb05,a11b27f8ed1df7c8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb05,public From: "Malcolm S. Muir" <malcolm@demon.net> Subject: Re: Demon uses up 158.152.x.x Address Space Date: 1995/11/09 Message-ID: <815924134snz@muir.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 119010630 x-nntp-posting-host: muir.demon.co.uk references: <815771584.27373@office.demon.net> <47og8c$9g9@netty.york.ac.uk> organization: Demon Internet Ltd. reply-to: malcolm@demon.net newsgroups: demon.ip.developers