[colechristensen]

1/8 hasn't been "bogus" since 1/2010. ( http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr... )

Using unallocated IPs for "internal" or bogus purposes is sketchy, continuing to use them after they are allocated is something else. Especially so nearly a decade on.

[notdonspaulding]

The wheels of technological change in the Telecom space turn very, VERY slowly.

Not upgrading equipment and configs for 10 years is nothing in the ISP world.

[crankylinuxuser]

You'd be scarily surprised just how much telecommunications runs on Perl5 ranging around the ~150GB level.

I had my stint at an ISP that worked with around 40 state level and national orgs. I saw the underbelly of how things work, and its frankly scary.

[gpvos]

Nothing wrong with Perl5 though.

[crankylinuxuser]

There is when much of the code was "write once, read never". There's more than a a few dozen MB blobs of dense perl5 code that we had no clue what it actually did, and was told not to touch it, lest many things break.

I had to end up touching one of them, because of things breaking with that subsystem and the new ticketing system that was being implemented. It had the wonderful line

     database_user = root
     database_password = [current mysql root password]

Lest to say, I no longer work there.

[TeMPOraL]

Every time I write some crap code at work, someone on HN tells a story about such horrors that I no longer feel bad. Thanks for making my day better :).