CSI New York fake IPv6

[patrick at ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore)]

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On Mar 20, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:44:50 +1100, Skeeve Stevens said:
> 
>> http://www.eintellego.net/public/CSINY.s07e17-fakev6.jpg
>> 
>> Promoting IPv6 = Win!
>> Dodgy Address = Fail!
> 
> Intentional Fail, probably, similar to how most phone numbers on a TV show are
> in the 555 exchange. You put a number on TV, and drunk idiots will call it, as
> a number of annoyed people found out after Tommy Tutone had an actual hit
> song...  257 seems to be a popular octet value.
> 
> (Personally, I'm surprised 148.18.1.193 got used in that image)

So am I.  But I'm surprised 1918 space was used as well.  ANY v4 address will get typed into ping or a browser or something by someone if it is on TV.  How many corporations have 1918 space that their VPN'ed home users are about to abuse because of that?

Is 127.0.0.1 / ::1 the Internet version of "555"?  Or will "I hurt myself, so now I'm going to sue you" mean we can't even use that?

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TTFN,
patrick

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