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you sir.... are an idiot.
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hehe j/k of course. but i mean come on. why would you say that, it makes you look stupid =P
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Quote:why would you say that, it makes you look stupid =P
He said it because he knows giving out the bank's real IP address is dangerous for the bank (and possibly him).
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Quote:whitetiger0990 Wrote:why would you say that, it makes you look stupid =P
He said it because he knows giving out the bank's real IP address is dangerous for the bank (and possibly him).
Well then why didn't he say that. Saying that the IP is the loopback is just silly =P
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I still think it would be a local address like 192.168.* or 10.1.*, a tellers computer having a open internet address is just stupid, for so many reasons.
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going by your numbers it is a local address. does that mean it cannot be directly connected to by ping or what have you?
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Yeah, you can't directly access local network addresses without first going through the gateway/firewall/etc. The internet was designed as a network of networks, each smaller network is usually only accessible to the rest of the internet via a few small points. This means that a bussiness like a bank can have several machines all with local addresses, that are gain access to and are protected from the rest of the internet by a single server that has an internet wide address.
For example, we use the 192.168.1.* addresses in my flat, our router has a hardcoded address of 192.168.1.1 (same for everyone else that is using the same model), whenever we dial in to the our ISP, the router is also assigned a network wide IP address.
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ok that makes sense now, no real problem there. my school uses 192.168.1.1
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our school systems printers are on 10.47.*
i dont remember what the computers were on. there were more then 255 in the entire school system. so it was a few 10.* numbers
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You don't need 10.*... it would be 10.47.* - unless you had more than 65536 computers. :lol:
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no if i remember the way they did it 10.47.* was specifically for printers.
and now that i think about it
10.* <-- the * may have been for different schools.
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