IP Spotting

I admit it, I’m a bit of an IP spotter. When I see a nice IP address, I feel the need to compliment the person who’s using it, “Gosh you’ve got a nice number”. It’s like lucking out and getting a good phone number.

A good geek will know the IP address of a good DNS server, and perhaps their own IP address, and a few others. When I had an ISP, we had two class-C blocks of IP addresses: 64.69.72.x and 64.69.73.×. Ah, the memories. My favourite DNS server, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in person one day, is jade.bc.net at 128.189.4.1. Some numbers you just can’t forget.

There’s another troupe of geeks out there who share my appreciation for fine IP addresses, and they’ve made a website to honour the good ones. I’m a bit upset that jurgen dot ca’s IP address (64.69.91.105) didn’t do so well , but there are about 7000 which are worse.