Re: Re: Need Help With gethostbyname()
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:04:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Need Help With gethostbyname() | ||
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* Thus wrote Jennifer Goodie (goodie@apollointeractive.com):
> > > I have a section of my script where I call gethostbyname($hostname) .
> > > For some host names that are not registered (according to register.com)
> > > I am still getting an IP address returned?
> > >
> > > What is happening?
>
> > Well, try only the toplevel domain... For example, I have like
> > hns345667dsvdtrt34.telia.com, I doubt that is registred, but
> > telia.com sure
> > is... I hope.. :S
>
>
> To answer the original question, verisign has decided it is a good idea to
> wildcard the .com and .net TLDs to point to
> http://sitefinder.verisign.com,
> so if you do a look up on a non-existant domain in those TDLs it will now
> give an IP. I believe a BIND patch has already been released to negate this
> change.
hmm.. that explains quite a bit. I was wondering how opera got
there on a lookup that should have been bad.
Time to block that IP now.. geesh. I dont want to be going to that
site if the lookup fails.
Curt
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