On 4 Mar 2016 08:23:22 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Leonardo Vaz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's not a private IP address on his LAN, it is the gist.github.com IP >> address. >> > >?Correct. But if the LAN authorities think, as he did, that 192.0.0.0/8 is >all private, instead of just 192.168.0.0/16, then their routing tables may >be set up to not forward 192.30.252.141 to the outside world, but route the >entire 192.0.0.0/8 to the inside only. Which would time out. As it did.? > My Internet provider uses 192.169.2.1-255 as private for its customers. All of the devices on my home network are 192.169.2.n.
Clark Morris > >> >> -----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 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
