[mythtv-users] Re: Why only numeric IP addresses work?

Michael J. Lynch mlynch at gcom.com
Wed Oct 13 19:37:13 UTC 2004


Mitko Haralanov wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:30:30 -0400
>"Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Cool... I never thought of using DynDNS as my own personal 'internal' 
>>DNS server.  I'd just assumed that they'd disallow RFC1918 addresses. 
>>I guess what they say about "assume" is true... :-)
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>Now, I am not an expert but I just don't see how this would work.
>192.168.x.x addresses are for private networks. Therefore, I can have a
>192.168.0.2 address, as well as any other person that has a 192.168.x.x
>networks.
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>In this case, how would DynDNS know which one of the thouzand
>192.168.0.2 addresses it should route to?
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>As far as I know, as designed the 192.168.x.x (and such) addresses are
>not to be publicly routable...
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>But I could be wrong!! :)
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You are correct.

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