* Thus wrote Jennifer Goodie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have a section of my script where I call gethostbyname($hostname) . > > > For some host names that are not registered (according to register.com) > > > I am still getting an IP address returned? > > > > > > What is happening? > > > Well, try only the toplevel domain... For example, I have like > > hns345667dsvdtrt34.telia.com, I doubt that is registred, but > > telia.com sure > > is... I hope.. :S > > > To answer the original question, verisign has decided it is a good idea to > wildcard the .com and .net TLDs to point to http://sitefinder.verisign.com, > so if you do a look up on a non-existant domain in those TDLs it will now > give an IP. I believe a BIND patch has already been released to negate this > change.
hmm.. that explains quite a bit. I was wondering how opera got there on a lookup that should have been bad. Time to block that IP now.. geesh. I dont want to be going to that site if the lookup fails. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure." -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
