A Word About This Chapter's Examples
The examples in this chapter were created to illustrate specific points and to allow you to safely run them on a two-computer network. To accomplish this with minimal risk to the worldwide DNS system or your company's DNS system, all examples use the imaginary top-level domain name .cxm.
In addition, all examples use private IP subnet 192.168.100. This is one of the subnets set aside for local, non-Internet use. You can see the complete list of private IP subnets in RFC 1918, mirrored at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1918.txt. If, by chance, your company already uses the 192.168.100 numbers for in-house IP addresses, you must pick another private subnet for this chapter's examples.
If running this chapter's ...
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