[Gllug] OT computers in the movies

will will at hellacool.co.uk
Wed Aug 28 16:17:23 UTC 2002


Tethys wrote:
>>You would think that they would check their facts just a bit... Or did
>>they use a completely invalid address on purpose (the same way they use
>>555 as the area code for all phone numbers) so they would not risk
>>getting in any kind of legal trouble?
> 
> 
> An RFC1918 address would have served that purpose just as well, as would
> one of the IANA reserved ranges such as 31.0.0.0/8, and neither would
> have been so horrendously wrong...

Yes, but for the sake of mildly annoying 20 geeks, the completely invalid IP 
addresses is probably the safer bet.

Will


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