John SiracusaI just had to think of an example of a public IP address, and my brain instantly popped this out from one of its dark recesses:
128.197.27.7
(Looking up the associated domain name didn't make me feel any better 👴)
Marcos Huerta@siracusa I always think of 8.8.8.8, thanks google.
Don Whiteside@siracusa 198.6.1.4, an old uunet dns server is my IP from the crypt. Though when my more modern mind answers it’s always just 8.8.8.8 since it’s nice and quick
Glenn Fleishman@donw @siracusa 36.44.0.6. I don’t have to even stop and think—it just comes out of my fingers. Those of our era should recognize it immediately! cc @adamengst
Lee Fyock@siracusa @donw @adamengst @glennf sumex-aim was the holy grail of FTP sites for Mac people. This was the IP that came to mind for me too.
Adam C. Engst@adamengst @flenser @siracusa @donw I remember typing in the IP a lot because…was DNS slow? Somehow, it was easier to type the number.
Owen 🇦🇺@siracusa 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1
Scott Frazer@siracusa 4.2.2.1 is my go to. The old bbnet/genuity name servers
Raven667@sfrazer434 I recognize that one, it's been a long time since I've used it though.
When it comes to example IPs I'm boring, I always use 192.0.2.0/24, one of the assignments for documentation.
I have seen the results of not doing that, a customer once had their whole internal network (behind may) overlapping some IBM space, because they just followed the examples from their AS400 app documentation...whoops
fengypants@siracusa “old” bu 🫠
Jon FergusonI find 18.27.72.81 easy to remember because it's a palindrome
dave@siracusa i hate that i recognized the network still
Rocket@rocket I’m pretty sure I interacted with the author of that book in some capacity back in the 90s.
Chris Frederick@kansaichris Yeah, they got it wrong there.
Michael Critz@siracusa “Shall we walk or do we have time to take the B-Line?”
@siracusa I’ve been telling this joke for a decade.
I just saw this tonight. Holy hell, Boston. https://youtu.be/QYtgILw3Yrs?si=Dzx3PkFY-Z9kkSQc
Can You Outrun Boston's Subway?
Shane Bouslough@siracusa why not 8.8.8.8?
Simon Pride@siracusa 131.111.12.20 is the main University of Cambridge DNS. Rather like nuclear submarines surfacing and listening for Radio 4, if I can't ping that, I know something's wrong.
Alan 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Doug Bailey@siracusa huh, not too surprising I guess, but two of UT Austin’s /16’s are in 128.0.0.0/8. Probably allocated around the same time.
@siracusa per arin.net, 1985 for UT, 1987 for that BU /16. Not as close as I imagined.
not that coachmike@siracusa 192.168.0.1
Can’t even remember what it’s from. But it’s stuck.
Can’t even remember what it’s from. But it’s stuck.
Saul Sutherland@coachmike66 careful! That’s a private IP, not a public one.
Joel Parker@siracusa Sick Burn BU! I think NEU did it classier (It used to be a Sparc machine): 129.10.116.115