I'm more interested in which browser this worked in... I've tried it in IE, Mozilla-Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror, none of them worked.
CJK On Friday 03 February 2006 15:16, Christopher L Merrill wrote: > 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/
