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From: mcneill@eplrx7.UUCP (mcneill)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Special Internet address
Keywords: LAN
Message-ID: <120@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 19:41:03 GMT
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One machine on our LAN caused a lot of havoc.  It was mistakenly placed on
the network before it's networks file had been configured correctly.  It
thought that it's network address was 192.9.200.0.  I seem to remember
seeing somewhere "never use x.x.x.0 address" (where x ranges from 0 to
255).  Is my memory correct?  If that is an untouchable address why is it?

thanks

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    Keith D. McNeill              |    E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
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