On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:42:47PM -0500, Nicholas Sturm wrote:
How about teaching us something since there are far more than a simple
majority of us that became network administrators because we purchased a
machine with Windows XP or Windows 2000 pre-installed and have that ducky
error message devised by Microsoft that says
consult your system administrator for any problems (paraphrased only
slightly). Of course since I consider most politicians as likely members
of the idiot class, being a moron is somewhat flattering. My Windows
2000 machine went flakey when I tried to download the last security patch
so I'm now just XP entrapped because the Windows 2000 machine will not
contact the Internet and my freenet node has been inactive for the last two
or three months.
Hmm, curious. You are talking about Windows 2000 Professional here, not
Windows 2000 Millennium Edition? The former has run stably on several
machines here for aaages... well, stable except when playing certain
computer games :)
Thanks for your help.
the other Nick
[Original Message]
From: zb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11/6/2004 5:48:41 PM
Subject: [freenet-support] Re: Freenet (5099 stable) tries to connect
toIANAreserved IPs
Klaus Eckhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
freenet tries to connect to
some strange IPs from time to time. So far I noticed connection
attempts to:
- 5.0.2.0
- 5.255.116.166
- 1.121.22.146
All these IPs are IANA reserved (and will be blocked by ProtoWall
for that reason). I'm wondering why freenet tries to connect
to this IPs, maybe it's a bug? Anybody else noticed such a
behaviour?
I suspect that this is because some clueless network administrators have
given machines on their LAN's these addresses. The computer that
have these ip addresses will be behind NAT's so when they make outgoing
connections it comes from a real ip allocated by the ISP they are
connected through.
Another classic one is morons who use 192.0.0.0/8 instead of
192.168.0.0/16 then wonder why they can't reach website like
adobe.com at 192.150.14.120
zb
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