Especially since 148.18 is Department of Defence - but it doesn't seem to be routed at the moment. ...Skeeve -- Skeeve Stevens, CEO - eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists skeeve@eintellego.net ; www.eintellego.net Phone: 1300 753 383 ; Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellego or eintellego@facebook.com twitter.com/networkceoau ; www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve PO Box 7726, Baulkham Hills, NSW 1755 Australia -- eintellego - The Experts that the Experts call - Juniper - HP Networking - Cisco - Brocade - Arista - Allied Telesis On 21/03/11 9:29 AM, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu<mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu<mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>> wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:44:50 +1100, Skeeve Stevens said: http://www.eintellego.net/public/CSINY.s07e17-fakev6.jpg Promoting IPv6 = Win! Dodgy Address = Fail! Intentional Fail, probably, similar to how most phone numbers on a TV show are in the 555 exchange. You put a number on TV, and drunk idiots will call it, as a number of annoyed people found out after Tommy Tutone had an actual hit song... 257 seems to be a popular octet value. (Personally, I'm surprised 148.18.1.193 got used in that image)