On 11/11/13 01:35, A C wrote:
Anyone care to explain what this refid means? This is from the
billboard on one of my machines. This came from the round-robin DNS
pool but I couldn't tell you which round-robin provided it other than
one of the North America or US pools.
204.109.63.243 .M-F.\.. 16 u 86 512 376 58.947 -201.11 138.426
I just looked at the code for printing the refid and if it decides that
the refid is not an address and that it should print it in ascii, the
routine "makeascii" is called to do the conversion. Oddly enough, if the
character is has the high order bit turned on, it prints "M-" and then
the character with the high order bit masked off. So, if the refid was
192.46.92.46 and it decided to run it through makeascii anyway, it would
print as .M-F.\..
Now, while it looks like a valid IP address, it doesn't seem to be one
of the servers that 204.109.63.243 is currently using (maybe
previously?) nor does it explain why an IP address got printed as ASCII,
but it does explain how we got 6 characters out of 4 bytes.
However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing "M-"
before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a good idea.
--
blu
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding
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