*** Retraction *** On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:36:13PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> What I gather is that this could be a student at isi.edu, which is > apparently part of the Univ. of California, File this message under: Big Dummy Posts We Wish We Never Made It's all brain-dead nonsense, based on me not recognizing the private ip range, and doing the following: # dig -x 172.16.72.113 ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> -x ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 56478 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; 113.72.16.172.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: 16.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 575 SOA blackhole.isi.edu. bmanning.isi.edu. ( 19971501 ; serial 10800 ; refresh (3 hours) 900 ; retry (15 mins) 604800 ; expire (7 days) 86400 ) ; minimum (1 day) ;; Total query time: 7 msec ;; FROM: CX937045-A.lncln1.ri.home.com to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Sun Dec 31 17:19:49 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 44 rcvd: 125 A blackhole is just that. Duh Bob. -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA