On Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 12:28:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
>> > 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. :) Much appriciated! I like being technical. Actually, a couple lists I'm on, if you didn't have any previous knowledge of these things, you would be lost. I was when I first came into the existance of becoming the e-mail administrator here. Have been now for close to six years (not only with my current employer) and it has taken me almost two thirds of that time to gain the "inside" knowledge thus far. > 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). Thanks for this tidbit. > 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). I understood this but thought maybe I should bring up the point about the example stuff. Also, I don't know about how you feel, but I'm real skidish about revealing IPs/domains/addresses on lists. Not that you couldn't just pull up the headers and see for yourself. ----- Duane Hill Sr E-Mail Administrator http://www.yournetplus.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
