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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:45:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: off-topic: invalid IP in use
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329234408.23543h-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980324155726.0073f150@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com>

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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



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