Rich Grise wrote:

> So, I've got ip masquerading going on Thunderbird, in Slack.
>
> I've got W2K running on Vehicle and Entheos, who are plugged
> into eth1, the gateway, 192.168.0.1.
>
> In Doze, D:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc ==
> # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
> #
> # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
> #
> # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
> # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
> # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
> # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
> # space.
> #
> # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
> # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
> #
> # For example:
> #
> # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
> # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.0.1 Thunderbird
> 192.168.0.2 Vehicle
> 192.168.0.3 Entheos
> 192.168.0.4 ABI-Quality
>
> ----------------------EOF----------------------
> <commentary>
> "Copyright ... Microsoft"???!?!?!?!!! What an arrogant asshole.
> </commentary>
>
> and everybody pings everybody, I'm posting with Butthook Distress,
> being forwarded through ip masquerading on Slack on Thunderbird.
>
> I've created a Morphodite! (yes, I know there's no such word, but
> everybody seems to use it to mean "Monster," probably a perversion
> of "Hermaphrodite.")
>
> I'm kinda ooked out by the fact that just by putting name/ip pairs
> in the appropriate /etc/hosts, that it acts like it knows everything,
> or something. But I guess that's about all that all the automagic
> stuff does.
>
> And y'know? If it hadn't been for Linux RTFMs, I'd never have
> guessed in 10^6 years that Doze has such a thing as an /etc/hosts file.
>
> Heck, Entheos and Vehicle show up on each other's "My Network Places;"
> I wonder what The Gates of Hell would think to know that I've got
> two of his virus holes talking to each other via Linux. :-)
>
> Bwahahahaaaaa!
>
> Cheers!
> Rich

Dude, you need Ritalin or something.

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