[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #173 - 12/21/98

John W. McCarthy(jwmcmac[at]flash.net)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:19:12 -0600

> Subject:
> Re: [WinMac] Peer to Peer Networking...
> Date:
> Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:22:37 -0500
> From:
> Curtis Wilcox <cwcx@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
>
>
>
> If you want to share files between a Mac and PC and want to spend as little
> as possible you can run ftp or web server software on one or both of them.
> Just give each machine a phony IP address (start them with 127 and make
> them unique) and when you use a browser or ftp client to look at the other
> machine, just type in the IP address since there won't be a valid hostname
> or DNS to do the resolving.
>

Rookie Question:

What would a full phony IP address actually look like. I can see from
above comment that it will have a 127 in it somewhere.

Thanks!

Pat Kelly McCarthy at jwmcmac@flash.net

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