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SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 11:57:58 JST SwiftOnSecurity

Fun fact a previous employer used a country's TLD as their internal domain (???) and that basically made me who I am today on the Windows networking stack
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  Alun Jones (@ftp_alun@infosec.exchange)
  
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  @SwiftOnSecurity I once had to deal with a customer that was running their internal network on a class A that wasn't being used. Somehow it worked for them until they tried to get some Windows machines in. The Windows machines didn't communicate with anything on their network. "So what unused Class A did you install your network on? 10.*?" "No, 127.*." ... "And that's been working for you?" "Right up until we tried to use Windows. Windows is a piece of shit, can't do simple ordinary networking." "No, Windows right here is obeying all the RFCs. Your Suns are sending out traffic they should be keeping internal. You need to renumber your entire network."
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  Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 11:57:58 JST Chris Siebenmann
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  @SwiftOnSecurity Once upon a time, we had a subdomain .rw.<thing>.utoronto.ca, and we had software that used short names like '*.rw' for authorization, and we didn't notice that .rw had become a ccTLD.
  And that is why people from Rwanda could read Usenet from our news server for a while.
  ('RW' was and is the abbreviation of a building name at the university.)
  
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