[OT] Rogers DNS Games? I Can't Access craigslist.org

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Meng Cheah <meng-D1t3LT1mScs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Can someone explain why 208-236-82.208.craigslist.org (208.82.236.208) ?
> Why the hyphens?

Apparently Craigslist set up some host names of that form.  It's
supported by DNS, so they can choose to do so.

This is arguably in poor form, being confusing (it confused people in
this thread), but it's legitimate...
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