Oops… that’s not an IP address

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Phil Crissman
on January 25, 2007
in Asides
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Besides the relatively unlikely instance of a government office using an Apple (unless this scene took place in Chloe’s home) this shot from 24 also features the somewhat disconcerting feature of having an invalid IP address… fun.

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  1. 1 Gapp
    January 25, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    Yeah…silly. But I guess it is possible that they are simply avoiding the use of someone else’s actual IP…pretty good odds against using a valid IP already in use, but better safe than sorry…?

  2. 2 mrben
    January 26, 2007 at 3:52 am

    Weird - 24 has very much been a Dell shop up until now. Have they switched to Apple for Day 6?

  3. 3 Phil Crissman
    January 26, 2007 at 8:07 am

    @Gapp: good thought, but I don’t buy it. They could have used a private network range, for example, anything between 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255, and would not have had to worry about it being someone’s “real” IP address. I guess technically, it would be several hundred thousand “real” IP addresses, but none of them available from the internet, per se. In fact, using a private IP would have been almost the only way to make it realistic; a computer on either a corporate/gov’t network, or even at home behind a router, would almost certainly have an address in the private IP range…

    Hey, if we’re going to be geeks, we might as well call it like it is… ;)

    @mrben: Not sure; this is my first season watching 24 — I don’t catch a lot of TV and I’ve been kind of daunted at the prospect of catching up on 5 seasons of episodes. I caught the beginning of this season, though, and I have to admit I’m hooked. I guess I’ll have to add the various 24 seasons to my netflix queue… :)

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