That's not a private IP address on his LAN, it is the gist.github.com IP address.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gist.github.com unreachable [was: RE: rexx and tso alllocate] On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 < [email protected]> wrote: > You aren't the only one Steve. From my employer's network I can't > reach gist.github.com at all, even just the main site never mind John's area. > Trying a tracert to gist.github.com only gets timeouts: > > Tracing route to gist.github.com [192.30.252.141] over a maximum of 30 > hops: > > 1 * * * Request timed out. > Etc. > > That DNS address (192.30.252.141) looks odd to me. I thought > 192.*.*.* was reserved for private local networks, or is that only > 192.168.*.*? > the private IPv4 address ranges are: 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16 ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network I'll almost bet your LAN people are laboring under the same delusion. > > I can reach gist from home though, maybe you can as well. > > Peter > -- A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. -- Klipstein Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
