Riddle me this ...

Herb Richter hgr-FjoMob2a1F7QT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Apr 1 22:24:12 UTC 2006


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Paul King wrote:
> I recently got a spam that had a link whose host was: http://1121829475/
> 
> This actually led to an Internet site (http://www.lttnetsolutions.com/). Is this 
> supposed to be the new format for ipv6? nslookup gives its IP as 66.221.194.166.

I've allways thought that the 1121829475 would be the decimal equivalent
of the 4 diget base 256 number or:

   66 x	256^3 =	1107296256
+ 221 x	256^2 =	  14483456
+ 194 x	256^1 =	     49664
+ 166 x	256^0 =	       166
= 		1121829542

...I don't know where the extra 67 comes from ;-)

> That has got to be the strangest URL I have seen.
> 
> Paul King
> 
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