Exactly Carl, I didnt really want to get into a fencing match with Paul, but ...



>>> "Carl E. Mankinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/24 8:15 AM >>>
The reason to get use this type of URL is to get around filters like WebSense or to 
make it harder for people to use tools like
ARIN/WHOIS etc, to report abuse.
.
I am sure the LATEST version of WebSense blocks this, but when I did testing with 
versions prior to 4.3
and several other filtering products, I found that the blocking did not always work:

http://www.playboy.com  result, access denied.
nslookup www.playboy.com 
http://209.247.228.201 result, access allowed
http://3522684105 result, access allowed.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul D. Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Network Operations" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I'm not sure how you drew this conclusion?  For anything that's not doing
> a direct string match, unless it's incredibly poorly written software, the


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