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Woundn't it actually make sense that a consultant would recommend using the 555 equivelant for an ip addresses since anyone could try to attack it after watchin
by noahc 14y ago
Woundn't it actually make sense that a consultant would recommend using the 555 equivelant for an ip addresses since anyone could try to attack it after watching the movie.
- Jach 14y agoAny qualified consultant would be aware of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses Edit: To save a click-through, if the movie/show producers actually cared, a seemingly innocent IP like 203.0.113.42 would not only be fine as "random computer number" for the general audience but also it would be a valid IP and furthermore instead of causing nerdrages would cause nerdgasms as people "in the know" can revel in their shared secret. It's not "correct" in the sense that the IP goes somewhere in real life but it's not flat out wrong.
- icebraining 14y agoBut if you're looking at the logs of connection over the 'net, as it's usually the case in those shows, a reserved IP would be wrong too. It's rather irrelevant which one you use.
- biot 14y agoAn obviously fake IP address breaks the suspension of disbelief for those who know what an IP address should look like: four octets of 0-255 each. There's a much smaller population who both knows what an IP address looks like and what IP addresses are assigned and publicly routable. By your logic, IP addresses might as well contain only three dot-separated numbers, such as "350.897.260"... since if there are no degrees of wrongness, why even try to get it minimally authentic looking?
- icebraining 14y agoWouldn't bother me.
- noahc 14y agoI considered suggesting using 127.0.0.1, but I felt that at least a meaningful portion of the audience might know that that is the local host. 203.0.113.42 is good as are the other test nets. I wasn't aware of these before though.
- ralmeida 14y agoAgreed, I hadn't considered this. I take that back.