On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, David Marshall wrote:
Good point. I'd tried it long ago in some (most likely broken) software and never gave it a second thought. "3638141293" resolves to 216.217.161.109, which is serviced, not surprisingly, but home.net. The site is up but trying (badly) to dodge traceroutes.
I only know about unix traceroute and that should work ipip:~# traceroute 3638141293 traceroute to 3638141293 (216.217.161.109), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.0.2.1 (192.0.2.1) 2.827 ms 1.88 ms 1.79 ms 2 10.66.0.1 (10.66.0.1) 21.541 ms 19.027 ms 20.959 ms 3 gateway.god.god (10.0.0.111) 30.18 ms 23.96 ms 22.738 ms 4 c1-pos3-0.chcgil1.home.net (24.7.64.173) 46.407 ms 41.601 ms 44.095 ms 5 c1-pos0-0.lnmtco1.home.net (24.7.65.150) 60.188 ms 55.005 ms 55.753 ms 6 c1-pos1-0.slkcut1.home.net (24.7.64.57) 85.283 ms 66.559 ms 64.059 ms 7 wbb1-pos2-0.pop1.ut.home.net (24.7.75.142) 72.083 ms 69.725 ms 59.08 ms 8 10.253.92.34 (10.253.92.34) 63.26 ms 65.591 ms 86.966 ms 9 216.217.161.109 (216.217.161.109) 62.396 ms 58.283 ms 60.437 ms -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster +1 (805) 753-8697