Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 08/30/2012 03:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:19:11PM +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Thursday, 30. August 2012. 14.27.48 Mark Haney wrote:
>>> On 08/30/2012 01:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>>> On 08/30/2012 10:39 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
>>>>> I may be a bit thick here, but I see no reference to the OP having any
>>>>> relation to CERN minus the public IP subnet the DHCP client is
>>>>> requesting an IP from.
>>>> It's not obvious, but a little checking will show that CERN owns
>>>> 137.138.x.y.
>>> That much I got, but that may just be a config error on the laptop
>>> rather than an association with CERN.  I mean, they are public DHCP
>>> addresses.  So unless he works for them, or what have you, that won't
>>> work.
>>>
>>> I'm not flaming, I'm just trying to make a point that he may not be
>>> involved with CERN, so why should that matter?
>> Suvayu Ali is a particle physicist at the NIKHEF National Institute for
>> Subatomic Physics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is working in a group for
>> Marcel Merk, collaborating on the LHCb detector experiments which are going on
>> now at the LHC collider in CERN. It is quite often that collaborators from
>> various institutions around the world come to CERN every now and then. So did
>> I several years back. :-)
>>
> All that information only a web search away :).  Yes, I am employed by
> Nikhef, and I am based at CERN at the moment.
>
Ok.....so I know this is going to sound stupid, but I'm currently 
unavailable to do a "search"....what....exactly IS CERN?....a 
school?.....a military outfit?....some kind of society?....just curious...


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