[gopher] Re: How was Veronica-2 made

["Eric Newberry" <ericnewberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now it's at http://www.azrockets.org/cygwin/xinetd-conf.

Eric
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: [gopher] Re: How was Veronica-2 made


>> > > Sure. It's at http://192.168.0.7/cygwin/xinetd-config. It may only 
>> > > work
>> > > under cygwin though.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately 192.168.*.* isn't an externally resolvable network. :-(
>>
>> What do you mean? I put it up there so you could download it.
>
> RFC 1918 specifies certain networks as internal, i.e., not routable to the
> Internet-at-large. These networks are 10/24, 172.16/20 and 192.168/16. 
> Thus,
> anything you put up on 192.168.0.7 is visible to your internal network,
> which is presumably also 192.168.something.something, but not visible to 
> the
> Internet because your direct upstream router shouldn't route these 
> packets.
> Furthermore, any request I make for them from *my* internal network won't
> get out to the Internet to even get near to your computer.
>
> The upshot is, you'll need to upload it to somewhere with an externally
> routable IP address.
>
> I'm back at the G5 but there is a problem on one of the boxes so I need to
> fix that first before I look into cygwin.
>
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