CDR: Re: Fwd: First Site

[David Marshall]

Joe Baptista <baptista at pccf.net> writes:

> > > THE NEW LINK FOR OUR SITE.
> > > SORRY FOR ANY TROUBLE YOU MAY HAVE HAD WITH THE OLD LINK.
> > > THIS ONE HAS ALL THE CORRECTIONS
> > > 
> > > http://3638141293/36/1059436/legal.html
> > 
> > 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.