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'''Fictitious Internet resources''' are websites, [[Internet Protocol]] (IP) addresses, or other facilities that are purported to be associated with the [[Internet]] and are used in works of fiction or popular culture, such as movies and television shows. This is also known as 'logging on to the fourth wall'.

==Domain names==

==IP addresses==
When [[IP address]]es are called for in a script, some TV shows, like ''24'', will use addresses containing components in the quad-dotted notation that are larger than 255, which is not possible since the components are only 8 bits large. The movie ''Swordfish'' uses an IP address in 293.0.0.0 in a scene, and the comic strip ''Narbonic'' referenced the fictitious IP address 132.513.151.319. However, in ''Antitrust'', several addresses in the 10.0.0.0/8 range are shown; these are valid {{IETF RFC|1918}} [[Private network|private network]] addresses, but their use is not possible on the public Internet. The ''CSI'' series uses addresses in the 5.0.0.0/8 block, which until November 2010 was reserved by [[Organization:Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]], and since December 2010 has been assigned to RIPE.

Two RFCs (Request For Comments) describe the use of Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation for [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735 IPv4] and
[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3849 IPv6].

Three IPv4 blocks are provided for use in documentation:
* 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1)
* 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2)
* 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3)

The IPv6 address prefix 2001:DB8::/32 as a reserved prefix for use in documentation.

==See also==
*555 (telephone number)
*Fictitious telephone number
*[[Example.com|example.com]]

==References==
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[[Category:Domain name system]]

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