http://$sum(7,18,-9.4).x42.com/ ??

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Nov 2 00:24:49 UTC 1999


In article <7vl8gd$rc6$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <aldenr at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Hiya,
>    I am a little confused with this URL ( http://$sum(7,18,-
>9.4).x42.com/ ) . I was wondering whether any of the guys on this
>channel had any idea on how something like this can be done. I think
>that there is some DNS trickery taking place in the background. Any
>clues ?

The x42.com domain has the following entry:

*.x42.com.	7200	A	195.100.134.30

So if you put anything before ".x42.com" other than weller, localhost,
namnsdag, or getz (the names that are explicitly listed in the domain) it
will use this entry.

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