Cannon you plonker!

Customer: "Hi Pete, can you arrange for the mail to be put back on the original IP?"
Me: "Sure, hey I know, lets check it's working first?"
Customer: "Good idea."
Me: "Nope .66 .69 or .71 is not accepting telnet connections."
Customer: "That's strange? I'm sure it was .71 tbh."
Me: "Oh"
Customer: "What?"
Me: "Helps if you put the port number on doesn't it?"
Customer: "Just a bit."

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