*crumple*

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

i think a part of me dies every time i ask the question "what's the public/WAN address?" and get an answer starting with "192..." or "10..."

at least we have the chicken.

Comments

[alysania.livejournal.com]

LOL that's too funny.. Great resource.
Doesn't work inside .mil though. The IP it gave me was for a gateway.. yayy security!

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

yeah that's true, but for most of my users it works. and, really, all i want to know is how to get to the gateway, since that's what i fix.

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

172 too, but not very common from my travels.

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

yeah i left that one out because a) no one uses it and b) if they do use it, usually they know the difference between public/private ips.

[jecook]

::coughs::

I was mortified when I found out that our mail server was leaking it's internal, martian address to the real world.

I was even more mortified when I found that we were using a software proxy server as our firewall to the internet on the very same machine.

We got better.

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

omg you wouldn't believe how many people have NAT turned off in their routers with their POINT OF SALES SYSTEMS sitting RIGHT out on the net where any hacker can just watch credit card transactions day in, day out.

i subsequently found out SBC has been using NAT off as a default setting for most of their business users. yet another reason i boycott sbc.

[kostika.livejournal.com]

Actually we use 172 for our internal address. But then I'm not the one who set up the new network. So no comment on the network admin. *cough*

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

IP Chicken! that's great. I was expecting the Burger King chicken saying "Your IP address is: some.eye.pee.address; What would you like the chicken to do now?"

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

gotta love the chicken, man. one of my customers introduced me to it and i love it to death.

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

Would you like fries with that?

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

I'm really sick of hearing it from my frontline techs, myself.

Just once, I want to smack them. Just once.

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

yes. i think often of smacking, or smack, because heroin makes everything better.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I wanted to smack the guy at the CO who bounced the ticket back to the frontlines because "the customer could ping 127.0.0.1 so there was nothing wrong with the line card"

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

um...wow...

some people need to stay the hell away from networking. in fact, most people need to stay the hell away from networking.

i get so peeved when i talk to self-described "network technicians" who are getting paid upwards of 50$/hr and have NO CLUE what NAT is.

urge to kill rising...

OH Rly??

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

Just graduated college.. Where are these $50/hr jobs at?

Re: OH Rly??

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

yea i dunno...i wish i did, bc i make crap. i think you need connections or an mcse or something.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Are the public addresses of your customers all within the same /8? You could try "What's your external address WHICH STARTS WITH nnn DOT?"

Never hurts to boot a caller down the path of righteousness.

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

unfortunately, no. i deal with lots of sbc's customers and they are often within the same range, but there's no telling. however, sometimes i'll give an example: "what is your external ip address? like 70 dot something something something or 68 dot something." but usually that's after the first failed attempt.

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

Found myself with the same problem. Some of my clients have mail with me but uplink to the net through someone else, thus problem sending out mail.

Thus I made an iptest myself , best simple script I've ever done.

Use it every week.