Re: Rose Tea

crymad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Debbie Deutsch wrote:
>> 
>> In this case, the articles had IP addresses in the NNTP-Posting-Host
>> field that were suspiciously similar (24.65.61.45 and 24.65.38.123).  The
>> first two octets matched.  (Each number separated by dots is called an
>> octet, because it represents an eight-bit number.)  That was quite a
>> coincidence.  I wondered if both belonged to the same ISP.  I used a tool
>> that implements a function called "whois".  It can take an IP address and
>> tell me who owns the address.  Sure enough, both addresses belong to
>> Shaw, a large cable operator in Canada.  
>
> So the first two octets designate the actual ISP?  I would have thought
> the last two do, with the first two designating a broader, geographic
> region.  Much like, say, the way country codes and area codes are for
> telephone numbers.  With IP addresses, it's the other way around?
>

The first octet *can* represent a country (some countries have easy to
filter ones; others have a range of first octet numbers.  I suspect in
this case that Shaw has disjunct numbers, but neither were
Asian/Australian.

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Rebecca Ore
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