Re: Bogus IP address for screen shot

["Skip Mendler" <wmendler -at- cornetltd -dot- com>]

Or, if you want them *really* bogus, just use any number over 255...  Since
your doc is about internal networking (yes?), it's possible that your
network might actually be using addresses from RFC 1597... "256.123.45.6"
would be a safe bet -- assuming, of course, that your audience is something
other than folks who would give you a hard time about using an impossible
number.

//skip


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Bogus IP address for screen shot


>There are a number of address ranges that are used only for private
>networks, and are therefore not addressable on the public Internet. Those
>numbers are:
>
>RFC 1597, Address Allocation for Private Internets, describes the
>following:
>
>>   The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
>>   following three blocks of the IP address space for private networks:
>>
>>        10.0.0.0        -   10.255.255.255
>>        172.16.0.0      -   172.31.255.255
>>        192.168.0.0     -   192.168.255.255
>
>So for your doc, you could use any address in these ranges for your
>example. Anything in the 10.x.x.x range will likely look fake to anyone
>reading it, while the 172.x.x.x numbers (not as well known) would
>probably appear "real" to your readers.
>
>