Its way beyond insane. I've worked with computers sense I built my 386DX16 in 1990. You gave a pretty good rundown. I'm wondering maybe if they didn't use DHCP and/or other dynamic protocols because they weren't sure they could control that part of the network at all locations like in red counties so they coded it to go to a specific IP or series of IPs. If so then that should provide a real world location that all this traffic went to.
Its way beyond insane. I've worked with computers sense I built my 386DX16 in 1990. You gave a pretty good rundown. I'm wondering maybe if they didn't use DHCP and/or other dynamic protocols because they weren't sure they could control that part of the network at all locations like in red counties so they coded it to go to a specific IP or series of IPs. If so then that should provide a real world location that all this traffic went to.
What a mess.