Peter Corlett wrote:
> llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.uk.
> com broke CentralNic's registration system... Some muppet had
> set the domain name column as CHAR(50).
I assume you mean .co.uk rather than .uk.com, but yeah. That's not the only
thing it broke, though:
Fit the First -- traceroute refuses to try (nslookup worked fine). Yeah, so
I added an alias tracert=traceroute so I don't have to remember whether I'm
on Unix or NT. So sue me.
[newton@ficus newton]$ tracert
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk
traceroute: Nice try !
Fit the Second -- telnet to port 80 dumps core.
[newton@ficus newton]$ telnet
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk 80
Trying 194.42.244.17...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Fit the Third -- telnet to IP address gets me some proxy server telling me
it couldn't connect. Not sure whether the machine is down or whether the
long name is giving the proxy server hiccups, though.
[newton@ficus newton]$ telnet 194.42.244.17 80
Trying 194.42.244.17...
Connected to 194.42.244.17.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Eyes/1.0
Host: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk
HTTP/1.0 500 Proxy Error
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:12:24 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3b5
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head><title>Proxy Error</title><head>
<body><h1>Proxy Error</h1>
The proxy server could not handle this request.
<p>
Reason: <b>Could not connect to remote machine</b>
</body><html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
Cheers,
Philip
