[OT-mask]

[Gregory D Hough]

Greetings,

I labelled this OT but it may be right on. An interesting phenomenon  
occurs when a Linux admin wannabe notices a winbox was compromised  
within a NATwork and replaces it a different flavor of winnibblets. I'm  
no astronaut, but this re-entry has been quite a ride.

Bad guys often wear masks to hide their true identity. "I believe" the  
same is true with badguysonline. So my question is when if ever should  
there appear a 255 octet in a host address, and is it wise to do  
anything but DROP these?

As I understand it, a packet sent to 192.168.1.255 will be seen by all  
hosts on the 192.168.1.0. As I understand it, 192.168.0.0/16 is non- 
routeable on the internet along with a few other reserved network  
blocks. I'd like to learn how this pertains to the wide area network.  
Here is just one example:

68.95.134.255 resolves to:
adsl-68-95-134-255.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net

thanks,
farmer6re9
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