From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 14:58: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.wananchi.com (everest.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3C337B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:57:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by everest.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 15CxY8-0008Vn-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:02:40 +0300 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:02:40 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Domain names that are just numbers -- what's this?? Message-ID: <20010621090240.H25711@everest.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B31292E.8EC9C976@iowna.com> <20010620184659.M91984@happy.cow.org> <3B312E9C.23E1178D@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B312E9C.23E1178D@iowna.com>; from "Bill Moran" on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:15:40PM -0400 X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 9:01AM up 28 days, 22:03, 2 users, load averages: 0.52, 0.27, 0.15 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Bill Moran [20010621 02:17]: writing on the subject 'R= e: [OT] Domain names that are just numbers -- what's this??' Bill> ravi pina wrote: Bill> >=20 Bill> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:52:30PM -0400, Bill Moran said at one po= int in time: Bill> > > Bill> > > What are these domain names that are just numbers? Let's take the Bill> > > following SPAM I recently recieved as an example: Bill> >=20 Bill> > ping and traceroute seemed to work just fine for me. Bill>=20 Bill> That's odd. Bill> Any theory as to why they wouldn't work for me? I'm running 4.3-STABLE Bill> of May 6, 2001 Bill>=20 Bill> I just get "cannot resolve: Unknown host" Bill>=20 Bill> -Bill In 4.3-STABLE I also get; wash:~$ ping -c 1 808517866170 ping: cannot resolve 808517866170: Unknown host wash:~$ traceroute 808517866170 traceroute: unknown host 808517866170 Seems like we're the only victims ;-) -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. I'm gonna kill you until you die from it!=20 -Saddam Hussein (actor?), "Hot Shots (Part Deux)"=20 --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE7MY3/n7LIsuxjem8RAjJDAJi/tcTWiIxiFc0j1rTwOHqXtQv4AKCbQCgZ InztA31Y2grWPsD9Cg18Fg== =aFvj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message