On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:38:50PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Matthew Toseland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> > Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at 
> > http://80-192-4-36.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/069-bfPzGwU/
> 
> Ouch.  Since your FQDN actually contains your IP address, this
> would look a lot nicer if you just wrote it as
> http://80.192.4.36:8889/gibberish/ .

This annoyed me too - it seems that the distro servlet currently insists 
on doing a reverse DNS lookup on any IP address and using that - which 
typically results in a much longer URL.

Ian.

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