At 11:20 AM 12/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>
>I've been wrong more than I've been right in the past but I think that
>".to" (Tongo/Tonga) is allowing its top level name to be used/sold
>through third party registrars - Or something like that. The host
>machine could be literally anywhere on the planet where an IP
>connection can be established.
Let's find out:
prospero:/home/kai# traceroute cr.yp.to
traceroute to cr.yp.to (131.193.178.247), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 main2-200-8.sjc.above.net (216.200.8.3) 0.258 ms 0.172 ms 0.169 ms
2 sjc2-gige-core1.sjc2.above.net (208.184.102.97) 0.252 ms 0.629 ms
0.205 ms
3 ord-sjc-oc12.ord.above.net (207.126.96.117) 60.102 ms 60.152 ms
60.316 ms
4 chicago-core1-2.ord.above.net (216.200.254.90) 62.536 ms 62.776 ms
61.458 ms
5 uic-mren.gw.uic.edu (206.220.243.24) 62.574 ms 62.528 ms 62.218 ms
6 UIC-FDDI-18.GW.UIC.EDU (128.248.100.18) 61.709 ms 61.889 ms 65.484 ms
7 BATM-20.GW.UIC.EDU (128.248.120.20) 61.947 ms 62.079 ms 62.050 ms
8 SEL-CAT5500-2.GW.UIC.EDU (131.193.99.2) 62.641 ms 63.103 ms 64.117 ms
9 koobera.math.uic.edu (131.193.178.247) 65.267 ms 64.555 ms 63.986 ms
prospero:/home/kai#
Looks like cr.yp.to is hosted by the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Indeed, it looks like another name for kooera.math.uic.edu. Let's check:
prospero:/home/kai# dig cr.yp.to
; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> cr.yp.to
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; cr.yp.to, type = A, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
cr.yp.to. 23h56m24s IN A 131.193.178.247
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
yp.TO. 23h56m24s IN NS a.ns.yp.TO.
yp.TO. 23h56m24s IN NS b.ns.yp.TO.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.ns.yp.TO. 23h56m24s IN A 131.193.178.247
b.ns.yp.TO. 23h56m24s IN A 131.193.178.247
;; Total query time: 7 msec
;; FROM: prospero to SERVER: default -- 216.200.17.152
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 1 09:53:42 1999
;; MSG SIZE sent: 26 rcvd: 114
prospero:/home/kai#
Yup, the IP addresses are the same. This should not be very surprising. (I
imagine Claude Rains, a la Casablanca, going "I am shocked -- *shocked* --
to discover that cr.yp.to is actually hosted at koobera.math.uic.edu!" <g>)
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
can't happen
The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition
that should never be true, for example a file size computed as
negative ... Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent
in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitu-
ally are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during
development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to
head off.
