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On Sep 28, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Wednesday, September 28, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Bill Judson wrote:
<<
BTW, R.A. Cantrell, your tinyurl has been hijacked by aim.com, AOL's
instant messanger, and leads right to their home page, aim.com.
Not for me. Maybe you're using Netscape, which is owned by AOL?
Now that is screwy. Yesterday I clicked on your tinyurl,
http://tinyurl.com/vfvn three times, and each time it opened AIM.com.
I am using the last version of Mozilla for OS X. Today, it goes right
to your page. Anyone else ever notice this happen?
Len
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It's your ISP fault, they were not translating the TCPIP name
"http://tinyurl.com/vfvn"; into the correct TCPIP address.
If you go into "Applications, Utilities" and start the application
Network Utility you can lookup the TCPIP address of www.tinyurl.com/
which is 216.234.186.14
If you place this TCPIP address into your browser window the ISP
doesn't need to translate the name to address.
Then pull-up browser history an click on the history link that took you
to AOL IM and translate that TCPIP name into their true IP address.
I'm not sure what all this will prove, except that your ISP didn't do a
correct translation.
It's been a long time but as best as I recall the local server that
does translations for your ISP only retains a translation address for a
short period of time (don't ask how long, perhaps another lister can
furnish that info.), unless there are a lot of request for translation.
So if the local server can not do the translation the request is
forwarded to the next higher level. Sometimes this may go on until the
request reaches the national listing authority. And somewhere along the
line your request got screwed up and your ISP sent you to the wrong
address.
Best Regards, /\*_*/\
Harry (*^_^*)
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