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  • Resisting the flood of letter campaigns

    10/02/2004 8:43:56 PM PDT · by AmericanHombre · 12 replies · 803+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | October 2, 2004 | John Hughes jhughes@sacbee.com
    There is a possibility that the democrats.org 'email campaign' originated from individuals within the sacbee.com internal network or the people writing those letters are "spoofing" the headers. Some quick points: 1) the 192.168 address is reserved for internal (private networks) RFC 1918 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix) 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix) 2) A search for democrats.org's IP address also reveals that it is not 192.168 but instead: 65.221.0.200 http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&Netnic=whois.arin.net&host=democrats.org 3) This means one...