Roger BW 😷4d ago
User of the web site: our IP is 192.168…
Me: that's your local network address, we'll need to know the external address our web site sees.
Them: our IT department assure me that's the right address, can you help?
Me: I can't help them since they don't know the basics of Internet networking, but maybe I can help you…
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A quick explanation of TRACERTE then follows. 3:O)>

(This moose is still more used to the IBM Mainframe spelling, even though I retired a couple of years ago.)

Mar 19 at 9:38amWeb
Show threadRoger BW 😷4d ago
@Cadbury_Moose Nah, we send them a custom URL, they load it, and I look at the logs and see that it's been loaded six times from different addresses. But apparently this is legitimate business practice, not a half-arsed DDoS.