Re: (PM) Off Topic: Wierd URL

Jon Hulett - Tech Director (gaijin@onramp.i2k.com)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:15:25 -0500 (EST)

Yup - after I installed the patch the URL wouldn't work.

Anybody got a small WinAPI or BSD UNIX utility to convert to the quad
format??

Jon Hulett
I-2000 Inc.
Technical Operations Team

On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Stephen Zedalis wrote:

>
> Be sure that you have upgraded your MS Internet Explorer to compensate for
> this. Apparently, using the 32 bit number instead of the dot-quad
> completely bypasses IE's concept of Internet security zones and therefore
> could trust sites it shouldn't. (Unless you apply MS's patch) Yep, pretty
> clever. Seems like the bad guys are always at the cutting edge of tech.
>
> On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Jon Hulett - Tech Director wrote:
>
> >Darn spammers are getting creative!
> >
> >Jon
>
> >On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Doug Ingraham wrote:
> >
> >> IP addresses are just 32bit numbers that happen to normally be expressed
> >> in the dot quad format.
>

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