Re: [MacPerl] Testing a perl cgi offline

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 1:06 PM -0500 1/8/00, Stephen Baum wrote:
>Set your TCP/IP address to 1.1.1.1 making sure your are not in any way
>connected to the Internet, and use  1.1.1.1 as your host name, i.e.
>http://1.1.1.1/yourpage.html Also use 1.1.1.1 as your router and name
>server addresses.


There are three address ranges that are reserved for private networks 
which are guaranteed not to be used by any on-line machines.  IIRC 
routers are supposed to keep them from ever passing to the public 
networks.  Using anything else, you run the risk of having the same 
IP as a real machine on the network.  There's a class A, a class B, 
and a class C private block.  Use one of those.  I don't remember the 
class C or B numbers offhand, but the class A network is what the 
Airport hands out to it's clients.  So you can use the address my 
iBook has at the moment, 10.0.1.96, and be safe. (Anything in 10. is 
safe.)

>
>I've saved a Location Manager setup so I can test Filemaker web databases
>offline in "loopback" fashion anywhere I please.
>
>==========================================================================
>Stephen F. Baum                                   http://www.wqed.org/fm/
>sbaum@pgh.net
>WQED-FM 89.3, Pittsburgh
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>

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Paul Schinder
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