> My post just crossed yours. Now I am really curious. Why in
> the world
> I am having a class A IP address? Unless the classification
> scheme has
> changed? If so, when?
Well, yes it did. Maybe 5 or 7 years ago.
The use of IP addresses and the classification as 'A', 'B', or 'C' was deprecated many years ago in favor of CIDR, 'Classless Inter-Domain Routing'.
There's a reasonably good introduction at:
http://public.pacbell.net/dedicated/cidr.html
-Doug-
