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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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> 10.5.5.31 is not a valid host address.  (Neither is 10.5.5.0, which
> you correctly avoided using; it means ``this host''.)

Currently, we are allocated an entire class C (204.182.243.255), and I
get the same results when I ping '204.182.243.0' as when I ping the
broadcast address, '204.182.243.255'.  I always understood that
'127.0.0.1' meant ``this host''.


Nate