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I've been using 4.2.2.2 on almost daily basis since 2003 - every time I want to see if I'm connected to the Internet, anywhere in the world - that's my canary.

It had never occurred to me to wonder why I was using 4.2.2.2. Just something I learned from one our network engineers, who learned it from someone else...




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