Starrngr@aol.com, 

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In a message dated 4/18/99 5:54:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
songoku@CrystalTokyo.com writes:

TCP/YP?  Is this the Transmission Control Protocol/Yggdrasil 

 > Protocol?  Also, would not Nabiki know that the maximum number 
 > in any part of the dotted quad is 255?  I can see Ranma making 
 > this mistake but not Nabiki.
 
 Why not?  Nabiki dosn't know everyhting.
 Just because she may be a good extortionist/business woman does not mean
 she understands network systems.
 
 > Now, if you are saying that this is YP and not IP, did Nabiki just 
 > stumble upon one of the "links" to heaven; such as being able to 
 > dial heaven on a phone?  If not, did Kami-sama allow the link for a 
 > reason?
 
 I got the impression that Skuld messed up while debugging.  An entirely
 plausible event.
 

Actually, this is a major concern, but not in the way that you two think.  
Unless the connection into Ysadgril is right there at the ISP dialup Nabiki 
and Ranma are using, its going to have to go through one or more routers to 
get there, and that invalid IP would bounce, even if it is a YP address, wich 
I will allow could have greater than a 255, because the ROUTERS know there 
shouldnt be a number greater than 255.  


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I stated this later in my C&C.  However, this was cut by 
songoku@CrystalTokyo.com in his reply.  This is one of the 
reasons that I feel that Kami-sama had to be involved in this.  Even 
if Skuld made the connection to Yggdrasil someone had to bypass 
Nabiki's ISP and connect her computer to the ggdrasil network.

We'll just have to wait and see.

Brian

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