Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:29:25 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 19:17:58, Bob Durrett wrote: >On February 05, 2004 at 17:38:00, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On February 05, 2004 at 15:56:19, Chessfun wrote: >> >>>AFAIK mine is also static. One thing Dr Hyatt wrote which was if you are behind >>>a firewall it's hidden. I know that if I post at say the Rebel Board as was, my >>>IP was always displayed correctly. Even though I use "Zone Alarm" as I'm sure >>>many others do. >> >>I think Dr. Hyatt was talking about a NATed firewall, which is different than >>something like Zone Alarm. For instance, at my house we have cable internet >>connected to a router (little thing, looks like a hub), and we have four or five >>computers with network cables plugged into that. One thing the router does >>(among many others) is that to anyone on the internet, all of our family's >>computers have the same IP address. The router sorts out the details and makes >>sure the right data gets to the right computer at our house. This is >>advantageous to us since we only have to pay for one IP address instead of four >>or five. > >I do exactly the same thing, with three computers. For some reason, I get email >DAILY which Norton Antivirus says has a virus [in the attachment]. I guess >having a router/hub doesn't act as a firewall after all. Incidentally, my >computer is the only one receiving the offending email messages. Since CCC is >the only bulletin board I use and I do not use Usenet, I assume someone like >"Swami" who uses CCC is sending those email messages, although that's not >certain. Anyway, it is a daily ritual for me to delete all virus-infected email >messages before doing anything else that day. Sadly, we cannot expect everyone >to be Saints. I have the same issue -- I had to set my mail program on auto filter - it deletes suspected email immediately (along with some valid emails (i'm sure )every day. If it did not, my box would overfill in one day with spam/virus.) Since somebody also spoofed my email address on a mass mailing(s) , I get alot returned mailed with the full cargo 500 to 1MB attachements (viruses ). The auto filter deletes all that stuff. This all happen after I became moderator and we voted to ban some members. I can't speak for the other moderators to know if that happened to them as well. > >Bob D. > >>Now imagine a company that "hides" hundreds or thousands of computers >>behind one IP address. There's no way of knowing which one of the thousand >>computers a message came from. >> >>>Also what is IP 127.0.0.1, I assume it's a blank IP but would CCC give you an ID >>>using such an IP?. Naturally they could avoid that and only issue ID's to valid >>>IP's. I'm probably getting over my head anyway as I know little about how you >>>could fake an IP. >> >>127.0.0.1 is a reserved IP address, called the loopback address. Essentially it >>is a way to refer to your own machine. It is useful for troubleshooting network >>problems. If you can ping 127.0.0.1 successfully, then you know you're network >>card is working at least, even if you can't connect to anything on the network.
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