[WEB4LIB] odd URL

[Mark Pecaut]

Looks like an obscured url.

http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm

The hostname is business.matav.hu.  


On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:54:22PM -0700, Brad Thomas wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I received a message the other day from a friend that had this link sent to
> him in an email. The email came from a site thanking him for sending the
> site some pornography - (even though he didn't). He asked my advice on what
> it did, but I don't have a clue....
> 
> Please don't try the URL - I'm not sure of what it does - please read
> on......
> 
> http://3286560814/uzlet/just99/r_l.html
> 
> It didn't work when I tried it either, but my ISP's cache returned the
> following error:
> 
> ==================================================
> The following error was encountered:
> Unable to determine IP address from host name for 3286560814.nt.com.au
> ==================================================
> 
> The original URL does not have the nt.com.au bit !!
> What concerns me is that I am running Windows NT, and I live in Australia
> (the nt and au parts) ......
> So why did the cache return the nt.com.au bit?
> What could the original URL have possibly achieved?

Your ISPs proxy tried to resolve it (the dword address) as the hostname.  
Your ISPs domain must be nt.com.au, so when it tried to resolve it, it 
just tacked that on the end.  Nothing too strange about that.

-Mark