[Lula] md5sum weirdness on firefox -- SOLUTION

Dan Kegel dank06 at kegel.com
Wed Mar 28 19:01:15 EDT 2007


On 3/28/07, Joe Bayes <jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com> wrote:
> Actually, I wasn't smoking crack, but my router was. The problem was
> exactly what I described above, fantastically unlikely as that may
> seem. My router was substituting (the encoded representation of)
> 216.86.195.37 with (the encoded representation of) 192.168.0.2.
> firefox-1.5.0.9-3 just *happened to contain* the (encoded) bit-string
> 216.86.195.37, so it was getting munged on the way in, and un-munged
> on the way out.

Thank you, NAT!   That's a hilarious problem.  Worth submitting to
comp.risks (see http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/ )
- Dan



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