Round Waffle wrote:

Possessed by The Unholy, David Heck scrawled the following in blood:

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would anyone happen to have the numeric ip address for eff.org or

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ftp.eff.org handy?

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I'd sure appreciate it....

Both eff.org and ftp.eff.org resolve to 192.88.144.3, according to nslookup.

But when you actually ftp to ftp.eff.org, the hostname reported is kragar.eff.org, and a traceroute there shows the endpoint's IP address as 192.88.144.4. Creative DNS administration... mwunix> ftp ftp.eff.org Connected to kragar.eff.org. 220 kragar.eff.org FTP server (Version 2.1WU(1) Thu May 20 15:21:04 EDT 1993) ready. mwunix> traceroute ftp.eff.org traceroute to kragar.eff.org (192.88.144.4), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 128.29.154.254 (128.29.154.254) 2 ms 2 ms 5 ms 2 mwgw.mitre.org (128.29.18.251) 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 3 reston1gw.mitre.org (128.29.1.2) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 4 reston2gw.mitre.org (128.29.100.253) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 5 128.29.217.253 (128.29.217.253) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 6 192.80.55.254 (192.80.55.254) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 7 Falls-Church3.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.61.1) 7 ms 13 ms 6 ms 8 Washington.DC.ALTER.NET (137.39.128.1) 35 ms 16 ms 41 ms 9 Boston1.MA.ALTER.NET (137.39.12.2) 22 ms 22 ms 24 ms 10 EFF-gw.ALTER.NET (137.39.25.2) 39 ms 22 ms 29 ms 11 kragar.eff.org (192.88.144.4) 26 ms 27 ms 29 ms mwunix> Joe a font of trivia today