Curse my metal conscience.

[serinde]

Entirety of user email:

please switch our mx to send mail to the following ip address

192.168.1.30

My black soul chortles in glee, desiring to wallow in schadenfreude (which need started with trains that never came and took a turn through a lying whore of a readers.conf(5) man page). But instead, I will mail the poor dork and gently inform him that he really, really doesn't want me to do that.

Comments

[msg1138.livejournal.com]

Ok, for those of us who are still attempting to master "computer on/computer off," why is this funny?

In fact... I bet it's something cool that you're just trying to keep from us!! Please switch my eep street or whatever it is to that number, too. Right now, or I'll fly to India and get you but good you stupid tech support person!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

There are certain networks that are reserved for internal use, and must not appear on the Internet: 192.168.*.*, 10.*.*.*, and 172.16.*.* through 172.31.*.*. There are other reserved networks, but they're not for common use.

[pir.livejournal.com]

It's an entirely internal address, the equivilent of posting a letter in a random postbox in New York addressed to just "Mailstop 23, 4th floor." and expecting the postal service to deliver it to the right person at the right company in the right building. It'll probably end up in the bin (/dev/null).

[sweh.livejournal.com]

At least it wasn't 127.0.0.1

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tried replying to that effect, but I hit a lag and by the time mine posted, rone had already said most of what I was gonna. :)

[reddragdiva]

You should offer to disable port 53, so ZoneAlarm doesn't get upset.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it... why not do what he asks and let him learn the repercussions?