[luau] What is 24.165.57.16

[DOUGS at oceanic.com]

> My post just crossed yours.  Now I am really curious.  Why in 
> the world 
> I am having a class A IP address?  Unless the classification 
> scheme has 
> changed?  If so, when?

Well, yes it did.  Maybe 5 or 7 years ago.

The use of IP addresses and the classification as 'A', 'B', or 'C' was
deprecated many years ago in favor of CIDR, 'Classless Inter-Domain
Routing'.

There's a reasonably good introduction at:

http://public.pacbell.net/dedicated/cidr.html

-Doug-
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