I didn't think this was a legal URL without a top-level domain: http://3400329509/ but it worked in my browser (the whole URL was http://3400329509/paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/index.php, the site for a paypal scammer in Indonesia)
pinging 3400329509, much to my suprise, resolved to 202.172.233.37 nslookup resulted in: $ nslookup 3400329509 Server: rlghnc-dns-cac-06.nc.rr.com Address: 24.25.5.51 *** rlghnc-dns-cac-06.nc.rr.com can't find 3400329509: Non-existent domain Also, a whois lookup fails...so I'm assuming there is some numeric decoding applied by the network stack to turn it into an IP address... anyone know what that decoding is? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Merrill | http://www.webperformance.com Web Performance Inc. Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
