Re: Spider with improbable IP address

[Ric Messier <kilroy () WasHere COM>]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Bennett Todd wrote:

> The .0 address is routinely the network number, not a usable IP
> address --- but this is only because CIDR blocks used as IP nets are
> routinely /24 and smaller. Consider the perfectly legitimate IP
> network (in RFC 1918 space, for illustration purposes)
>
>         10.0.0.0/23
>
> Here are the relevent details:
>
>         255.255.255.128 netmask

I suspect you really are going for 255.255.254.0 as the netmask here. :-)

Ric