I love war stories. I once got chewed out by a colleague <?> from another organization because we were using "their" address space.
We were using 10.0.0.0/8. Explanation of NAT and RFC1918 was met with a deer in the headlights look. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Matt Shadbolt <[email protected]> wrote: > I once had a customer who for some reason had all their printers on public > addresses they didn't own. Not advertising them outside, but internally > whenever a user browsed to a external site that happened to be one of the > addresses used, they would just receive a HP or Konica login page :) > > They didn't mind though. No idea if they've changed it since. > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Larry Sheldon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/18/2010 14:30, William Allen Simpson wrote: >> > On 3/18/10 2:35 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: >> >> Does anyone know if the University of Michigan or Cisco are going be >> updating their systems and documentation to no longer use 1.2.3.4 ? >> >> >> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=1.2.3.4+site%3Acisco.com >> >> >> >> I know that the University of Michigan utilize 1.2.3.4 for their captive >> portal login/logout pages as recently as monday when I was on the medical >> campus. >> >> >> > Dunno about cisco. >> > >> > med.umich.edu seems to run their own stuff, separately from umich.edu, >> and >> > quite badly. I've complained about their setup repeatedly over the past >> > several years. No traction. >> >> Is it something about Medical Schools? >> >> When we were first putting together the campus network, Surgery was >> running a Token Ring (I thought "Vampire Tap" was a fitting item for >> their inventory) running in Class D space as I recall. >> >> > Should we try again, jointly? ;-) >> >> Towards the end, there were people who insisted I must rout their net to >> the Internets. >> >> I declined. >> -- >> Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu. >> (A republic, using parliamentary law, protects the minority.) >> >> Requiescas in pace o email >> Ex turpi causa non oritur actio >> Eppure si rinfresca >> >> ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs >> http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml >> >> >> >> > -- ===================================== Charles L. Mills Westmoreland Co. ARES EC Amateur Radio Callsign W3YNI Email: [email protected]
