Hostname all numbers???
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Apr 19 22:21:54 UTC 2001
It's not a domain name, it's just a decimal representation of the webserver's
IP address.
-Kevin
boopsie wrote:
> Someone sent me an e-mail with a link to an address that is all numbers?
> (e.g., http://123456/buystuff.htm) How is this possible? I thought a all
> valid hostnames had to abide by the top-level domain naming standards (.com,
> .org, .net, etc.)
>
> I'd also like to find out who this site is registered to. I can do a
> traceroute, which finally ends up at an IP address. But a whois search did
> not give me any information.
>
> Thanks
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