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[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mind you, that's for the same reason all American phone numbers in shows have a 555 prefix – showing a real address could lead to liability if e.g. someone tries to launch an attack on that address they saw on TV.

Unlike phone numbering schemes, the IPv4 address space has no well-known area reserved for fictitious addresses. Sure, you could use something like 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, or 203.0.113.0/24 (test networks for use in documentation), but those aren't well-known outside of certain circles.

So they just go with completely invalid addresses because that's easy.

[–] python@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just use 127.0.0.1 as the address and let hackers try to attack it.

[–] daddycool@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This guy sure has a lot of porn.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The call is coming from inside the house.