From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 23:45:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10243 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:45:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10210 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA23805; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:45:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:45:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ludwig Pummer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: off-topic: invalid IP in use In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980324155726.0073f150@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > I was at school, telnetted into home and ran a traceroute just out of > curiosity. I got some interesting results: there is a 172.16.4.1 computer > out there, between @Home and Netcom's network. I've seen these before, usually from proxy servers or firewalls as it loops around inside a device (probably a router belonging to home.net). I usually consider this an error; you should probably bother their network ops about it just to check. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message