troublesome false negative

[Matthias Andree]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002, David Relson wrote:

> At 07:34 PM 11/5/02, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
> >BTW, your Message-IDs make up for interesting side effects in the lexer:
> >The first part -- 4.3.2.7 -- is considered an IP...
> >
> >get_token: 1 'message-id'
> >get_token: 1 '4.3.2.7'
> >get_token: 1 'c3a9e0'
> 
> Sounds like the Eudora version number.  Hope 4.3.2.7 isn't part of an 
> Pacific Rim address block;  I hear lots of ISP's block mail from Asia.

I don't think so, the US have reserved themselves a much bigger piece of
the IPv4 cake than others.

| http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space:

Address                                                                         
Block   Date     Registry - Purpose                  Notes or Reference         
-----   ------   ---------------------------         ------------------         
...
004/8   Dec 92   Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.                                   
...

| whoisi 4.3.2.7:

Genuity GNTY-4-0 (NET-4-0-0-0-1) 
                                  4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
GTE Intelligent Network Services GTEINS-0-08 (NET-4-3-0-0-1) 
                                  4.3.0.0 - 4.3.3.255

# ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-11-04 19:05
(this one is handled by Verizon)