[148711] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US DOJ victim letter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Fri Jan 20 14:05:47 2012
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:08:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4F19750E.5060200@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Fri Jan 20 08:11:24 2012
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:07:10 -0600
> From: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: US DOJ victim letter
>
> On a less serious note, did anyone notice the numbers on the fbi.gov
> link? I'm pretty sure they are implying those are IP addresses.
> 123.456.789 and 987.654.321. Must be the same folks that do the Nexus
> documentation for Cisco.
>
For illustration purposes, for a non-techincal audience, it seems (at
least somewhat) reasonable to use 'nonets' instead of octets. After
all, 'no nets' are clearly not what DNS -should- be returning. *GRIN*
And, of course, systems using the traditional unix dotted-quad to binary
conversion logic _will_ happily convert those strings to a 32-bit int.
