[H-GEN] lost the plot... most likely

Christopher Biggs chris at stallion.oz.au
Mon Oct 18 02:25:55 EDT 1999


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An individual lost in the mists of misattribution wrote:
> > Now would be a good time for a real life anecdotal storey about the perils
> > of using public IP numbers as your internal subnet, and then finding that
> > you want to retrieve software from an organisation using those same
> > numbers. 

The numbers that a particularly misguided (and departed) mangler
picked out of the air to use for some dialin clients happen to be
owned IRL by the Government of Colombia.   

I shudder to think what would happen if a leaky gateway were to raise
their ire.

cjb.

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