Strange URL

[James D Almand]

How about the following;

nslookup www.prometheus.gwu.edu
Server:  statens1.state.ga.us
Address:  198.176.174.181

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    ns1.intuitivenetworks.com
Address:  64.124.100.219
Aliases:  www.prometheus.gwu.edu, prometheus.gwu.edu



James A Griffin wrote:

>Behrooz Hadavi wrote:
>
>>I have a user who is trying to access to a URL on the Internet.
>>
>>The URL is http://www.prometheus@gwu.edu
>>
>The domain part is just -----------^^^^^^^
>
>The "www.prometheus" play the part of a "user ID".
>
>>My DNS server is unable to resolve the request. Any comments or
>>suggestions are highly appreciated.
>>
>
>Try to resolve just the domain part, for example:
>
>[artch at sparta artch]$ dig gwu.edu
>
>; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc6 <<>> gwu.edu
>;; global options:  printcmd
>;; Got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14766
>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
>;; QUESTION SECTION:
>;gwu.edu.                       IN      A
> 
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>gwu.edu.                7071    IN      A       128.164.127.131
> 
>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>gwu.edu.                7072    IN      NS      ns2.gwu.edu.
>gwu.edu.                7072    IN      NS      auth4.dns.rcn.net.
>gwu.edu.                7072    IN      NS      ns.gwu.edu.
> 
>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>auth4.dns.rcn.net.      172671  IN      A       207.172.3.22
> 
>;; Query time: 41 msec
>;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>;; WHEN: Wed Oct 10 11:04:15 2001
>;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 123
>
>FWIW, my Netscape browser has no problem with the URL.
>
>Jim
>
>>Behrooz.
>>
>
>
>


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