On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
I didn't think this was a legal URL without a top-level domain:
http://3400329509/
pinging 3400329509, much to my suprise, resolved to
202.172.233.37
the url above is decimal for the dotted quad notation.
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?
the dotted quad notation is for humans
Joe
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