Thanks for the information though I would've preferred the same answer
in a polite tone. Not everyone is a born genius. It takes sometime to
get used to the terminology when someone is new to the subject.
Anyways I shall improve myself as you suggested. Thanks for your time.

On Jan 3, 11:54*pm, Dave Uhring <daveuhr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:13:42 -0800, Legend wrote:
>
> Top posting corrected. *
>
> > On Jan 3, 9:45*pm, Dave Uhring <daveuhr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:18:21 -0800, Legend wrote:
> >> > I did a small traceroute to a few IP addresses and found a lot of IP
> >> > addresses having 127.255.255.255 and each instance of 127.255.255.255
> >> > belongs to a different AS... Can someone tell me what significance
> >> > this has?
>


> >> Are you aware that Goofle is a search engine? *What happens when you
> >> put your subject line into their search bar?
> > No. I tried using Google.
>
> Either you did not do as I suggested or you are incapable of
> understanding anything which you read.
>
> > I know its a loop back address but I've read
> > somewhere that it is used for spoofing. So in my traceroute dataset, I
> > didn't know if I should be bothering about these addresses in the first
> > place. Would you kindly advice me?
>
> The only one which such an address could spoof if you. *All of those
> 16,777,216 addresses are inside your own machine.