Chuck - Very true... What about the time our old manager (MARTIN) gave your old organization that Entire Class B !!!!
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Charles Mills <w3y...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <matt.shadb...@gmail.com> > 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 <larryshel...@cox.net> > 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: w3y...@gmail.com > >