Joe Baptista
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One boggles when some idiot who spams refers to a URL as a "line," and then can't even give a valid URL. What did they do, convert the IP to a single value and then translate it to decimal? Why? It's obviously to dodge complaints. I have to wonder about anybody who would write a browser which accepts something like that in the first place.
The browser has to accept it. The number is valid. you would have to reprogram the stack to block resolution - or alternatively block it at the browser - and I'm not even sure that is possible at this point. The decimal format is part of the way the internet works.
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.