On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 08:07:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey - sorry to forward smutt spam junk mail, but I'm just curious
> how do these
> http://3493725730
> addresses work, anyway? I thought DNS needed either a real
> IP address or a domain name complete with extensions and dots.
>
It's not going through DNS--that's a 32-bit IP address in decimal. To
get a dotted address from it, convert the whole dern thing to hex, which
is D03E0622, then convert the bytes (pairs of numbers) individually to
decimal and put dots between them, ie: 208.62.6.34. It's a BellSouth.net
customer.
R.
