On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Jason wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I've been receiving a lot of
> spam these days with addresses such as this one: http://3520566060
>
> (sorry about the link.. it's a link to an adult site that has spammed
> me,.. i don't want to encourage clicking the link, but unfortunately
> it's the only example i have of such a URL).
>
> Anyhow.. how does that URL work? I can't seem to resolve it to an actual
> IP address through nslookup.
>
>
>
> = Jason Soros =
> = Assistant System Administrator http://www.laker.net/ =
> = Laker Information Systems http://www.laker.net/jason =
> = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wizard.laker.net/ =
> = Why Drive When You Can Fly? =
> = Sales: 1-888-LAKERNET | Tech Support: 954-359-3670 =
>
try pinging it from a command line, you'll see that it resolves to
209.215.147.44
If you took that ip address and looked at it as a 32 bit integer instead
of 4 8 bit integers, you get 3520566060 ((209 * 2^24) + (215 * 2^16) +
(147 * 2^8) + 44)).
-d
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