[rescue] Printing to the 'net

Ken Hansen rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Aug 8 11:20:41 CDT 2001


Oh Bill, I can use whatever I want, it just gets goofy if I want to hook up
to a public network!

BTW, my completely informal testing shows that (on this Win98 laptop) any
address of the form 127.x.x.x (127.0.0.1, 127.0.1.222, etc) are loopback
addresses.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Printing to the 'net


> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:45:03AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > I though only 127.0.0.1 was loopback, but of all the people on the list,
> > I'm probably the least authoratative person about that.
>
> http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1918.html
>
> The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following
> three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
>
>      10.0.0.0        -   10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix)
>      172.16.0.0      -   172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)
>      192.168.0.0     -   192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
>
> Of course, behind something like a PIX, you can use whatever you
> want...
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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