Re: Domain name resolution...

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Just tried it and a browser does convert it correctly.

"Harry Bates" <harry.bates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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To answer some of your post, this has nothing to do with DNS. DNS is
domain name service, and since you just clarified what you were asking,
DNS does not come into play. Therefor your question did not make sense to
me, and the link would be invalid because there is no valid root listed. I
am behind a firewall at the moment but will a browser actually open this
link? I'd have to try when I get home on my test bed. I also did not
understand your post completely, which is why I stated "I don't know what
you are asking". Maybe that question could have clued you in that I needed
more information, but guess not. Glad you got your answer.

"Andrew Meador" <ameador1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 14, 11:10 am, "Harry Bates" <harry.ba...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I dont know what you are asking, but I can tell you thet the http is a
protcol, not a domain name. "htp" is not a valid protocol so that will
not
work. Second, the domain name will not work whatsoever because it is not
valid. If that was suppose to be an IP address you would nee a dot
between
quadrents. I still have no idea what you are trying to do, why not just
delete the email and bbe done with it?

"Andrew Meador" <amead...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Please do not follow this link, or do so at your own risk - if it
even works!

I got an e-mail that I suspect is linking me back to a boggus
PayPal site. The link is:

htp://1422718346:82/cmd_home/index.php

I changed http to htp so this would not create an active link. But
will this resolve? Can this work as a dns/domain name? I've never seen
a domain name like that before and wonder if there is something new
being done in domain name resolution, or if I missed something and
this has always been able to be done.

I know this is an odd place to post this, but I figured server
admins with DNS expertise would know. I didn't follow the link, maybe
it works, maybe it doesn't, but I don't trust that this is a
legititmate PayPal site and didn't want to activate some web-virus or
something.

Anyway, if this does work for a domain name, how? Thanks!- Hide quoted
text -

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One, read my email. I said I changed "http" to "htp" so this would
not show up in your newsreader software as a hyperlink; so as to make
it harder to "accidentally" follow the link - as I suspect it is
potentially malicious. Two, I know that http is a protocol and htp is
not (thus my intentional name change to break the auto-hyperlinking
function that many newsreader softwares out there may have applied to
it. Third, this is not the point of my post, the domain name part of
the post is my focus. As Osman Shener explained, this IS a valid web
link, as the number is converted to hex and then the octets of the hex
version of the number are used as the IP. Fourth, I could have simply
deleted it and could have just gone about my mary way, but now thanks
to Osman Shener, I know another little piece of information about how
something I work with - works. I find knowledge to be a useful thing.



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