> 192.168.0.2 isn't telling anybody anything. That's an unroutable IP, like > 172.0.0.0/12 and 10.0.0.0/8.
I understand this. Most other lists I'm on (qmail, sendmail, etc.) use internal IPs for
example purposes. Also, I don't know if anyone knows, but the uses of the domain name
example.com, example.net, example.org are just for that purpose as well. If you visit
http://www.example.com it will display the RFC that covers this. That way you're not revealing
a domain name that could be prone to harvesting through public list archives.
You're way ahead of most people. :) I'm amazed at how many people "somewhere" or "somedomain" or just "domain dot com". Worse, when you try to respond to them, you have to decide whether to use the valid-but-not-owned-by-them domain (to make it easy for them to understand the response), or whether to use the correct example.com.
If you want to get *really* technical, you should use the 192.0.2.0/24 range for IPs (that is the range the RFCs specify for examples for IPs). I usually use the last octet to indicate the service, such as 192.0.2.25 for SMTP (port 25).
I think the issue that the poster had wasn't that you were using an unroutable/example IP, but instead was that you weren't giving out the IP that the problem was occurring with (so someone couldn't, for example, run a quick test with it).
-Scott
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