> I've been rather busy lately, so I haven't had the time to reply to
> postings. I'm working on my backlog now...
>
> [Regarding warez.gameplace.com. Try it out before you read on!
> Extremely funny!]
>
> From: Graeme Hoose <graz@CFM.ICL.CO.UK>
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 05:08:26 +0000
>
> Hmm - wont allow me access from behind the company firewall !
> Anyone elese having the same hassle or has gatekeeper gone loopy again ?
>
> If you have trouble accessing this site, it's because you're on a
> computer that doesn't answer on any of the service ports you're trying
> to access. You see, if you look up the name warez.gameplace.com in DNS
> you will see that it translates as 127.0.0.1, which is the reserved IP
> number for the local loopback. That is, if you, say, telnet to this
> site, you're telnetting right back to your machine!
>
Some trickery.... plus of course the one from the registry who didn't do
his job (or was owerly incompetent). Anyway, as the traditional classes
(A, B, C) have almost disappeared, it's already impossible to make sure
for exapmle, whetever a given adress is a broadcast one or not - that is
I know of cases where broadcast adress for a subnet was registered under
a name of computer...
> I just wonder how someone could register that address...
>
> mikael <cardell@lysator.liu.se>
> hacker of convivial tools, anarchist, zen buddhist
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~cardell/ (not updated)
>
Sander