Folks,
Thanks for your responses thus-far. It seems that my head is floating in
the clouds today and I appear to be dreaming half of this situation. A
couple of months ago, as I said, our network admin pointed out this
problem to me. I can no longer find the email he sent me where he stated
this and that and the other, nor can I even find my response back to him.
I remember doing a bunch of "homework" on the issue when I became aware of
the issue and it has been awhile since I looked upon it again.
Everything I described previous was from memory. I swear to you all I was
able to ping one of those IP addresses, and I even remember looking at
ARIN. Well it appears that I am dead wrong! Heh! I really have no idea
how I've misinformed myself so badly. Anyway, I am contacting Consumers
Energy about the matter now, their postmaster too.
I appreciate all the input, but I guess we can consider this matter
closed.
Move along, nothing to see here... ;)
./brm