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Cable IP's going into the 169.* range? or is something up..?

#1 User is offline   Mr.Guvernment 

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Posted 22 November 2002 - 02:41 PM

IGNORE!!! ...lol - friend read off to me the internal NIC cards address...LOL not the one connected to the modem



but incase u wanted to read what i posted!..lol

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Hey all

recently i use remote access to get to my server back home - it is on Rogers cable and they usually use 24.* and i think now 69.* as ip ranges.

Now, recently i discovered that they have change the Ip address to 169.* which belongs to:

Code:

Server used for this query: [ whois.arin.net ]

OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA

NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
CIDR: 169.254.0.0/16
NetName: LINKLOCAL
NetHandle: NET-169-254-0-0-1
Parent: NET-169-0-0-0-0
NetType: IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment: Please see RFC 3330 for additional information.
RegDate: 1998-01-27
Updated: 2002-10-14

OrgTechHandle: IANA-ARIN
OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-823-9358
OrgTechEmail: res-ip@iana.org

# ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-11-21 19:05
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's Whois database.






NOw, this seems weird to me beause here in the Caribbean, where i have a Dial up account - about a week ago when i dialed out - i SWORE i was connected to a 169.* IP address as well (i was testing a forum and needed to know the ip address)


Sp - is something up? is this 169. ip range a "spy" range that they put people onto for a while? Or what exactly is it and why would someone on cable be using that IP and someone on dial up be able to go through that IP range as well?

To me it seems somethign is up and i almost do not want to connect to my server until this changes.

(my dial up account has since gone back to it's regualr 208.* ip range)


Any input??[/list:u]
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