Poverty in Appalachia

[freedom lover]

WTF do you know about hillbillies living in Reston?

Calm down. I don't even know where Reston is, so nothing I guess. Besides, I very much doubt I live in your state.

[Don't care]

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[mtnbkr]

Are there any hillbillies in Reston, VA?

No, it's yuppie central.

Chris

[mtnbkr]

Calm down. I don't even know where Reston is, so nothing I guess. Besides, I very much doubt I live in your state.

Funny, your IP info has you connecting via Reston.   The Bell Atlantic Central Office at Campus Commons to be precise. 

Chris

[freedom lover]

I've never even been to Virginia. I don't know much about it, or about hillbillys to be fair. They're getting rare. I'm from a state far to the north that has very draconian gun laws. Between here and Buffalo there are a few hillbilly types. 

[freedom lover]

Funny, your IP info has you connecting via Reston.   The Bell Atlantic Central Office at Campus Commons to be precise. 
Chris

I don't know how that kind of thing works. I'd guess my home is connected by copper lines to servers in a nearby big city. Those might be down right now and I'm being rerouted to Reston. The phone company used to be Bell Atlantic, now it's Verizon. You can only track me to my local server, not my house, right? In any case, why the heck were you snooping? I suppose it was because you were offended. I never claimed to be an authority on hillbillys.

[K Frame]

"You can only track me to my local server, not my house, right? In any case, why the heck were you snooping?"

We can tell you what room of the house you're posting from, actually. Octets are that precise.

And we aren't snooping. We staff, that information is available to us immediately.

[Nick1911]

Funny, your IP info has you connecting via Reston.   The Bell Atlantic Central Office at Campus Commons to be precise. 

Chris

I'm honestly not sure how you arrived at that conclusion.  Trace route?

My resources place it in NY.  I won't post the city unless freedom lover doesn't mind.

[mtnbkr]

I did some further digging and it turns out I was wrong with regards to the location.  The ARIN info says Campus Commons in Reston, but that is only the corporate contact info I guess.  I don't know why Campus Commons is VZ's contact though, I never considered it a primary site.  It certainly wasn't before BA merged with GTE to form Verizon.  My company (at the time) leased office and data center space there (I worked there for nearly 3 years). 

Especially odd considering VZ has a mondo huge HQ building in Dulles ever since sucking up MCI.  Also odd considering what else VZ runs out of Campus Commons.  That's why I assumed it was a local Central Office and not a larger operation.

Anyway, I was wrong and I apologize.

Chris

[charby]

Some don't.

Those folks truely are poor then.