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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!balkan!ccird!felixg
  3. From: felixg@coop.com (Felix Gallo)
  4. Subject: Re: HEADLINES: After the fiasco with failed installation..
  5. Organization: Cooperative Computing, Inc.
  6. Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:32:18 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Dec31.153218.2983@coop.com>
  8. Followup-To: comp.os.linux
  9. References: <1992Dec31.103742.5972@sfu.ca>
  10. Sender: felixg@coop.com (Felix Gallo)
  11. Lines: 23
  12.  
  13. wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
  14.  
  15. >   eagles -> 127.301.022.401
  16. >   127.301.022.401 - bad address.
  17. >   bad ip_number: Unknown error
  18.  
  19. You figured, perhaps, that setting your host IP octet to an
  20. arbitrary high number would be okay?
  21.  
  22. IP numbers are of the form
  23.  
  24. NNN.OOO.PPP.QQQ where each of NNN, OOO, PPP and QQQ are digits
  25. from 0 to 255, with 0, 1 and 255 being generally reserved (vast
  26. oversimplification, implementation-dependent, but you'll cope).
  27.  
  28. As such, a number like "127.301.022.401" is wrong in two ways
  29. and possibly three (I dunno if the inetatoaddr [or whatever,
  30. you'll cope] function will handle leading zeroes).  You want
  31. something like '127.240.22.250'.
  32.  
  33. >InterNet: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca  |  "Fail not; Learn Not.
  34. >                               |  It is with failing, that one learns,
  35. >                               |  So by Learning, one must fail." - Edmund Wong
  36.