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Date: Tue Mar 14 01:36:46 2006
From: abryson at bytefocus.com (Alice Bryson)
Subject: strange domain name in phishing email

Yes, this is only a way of expressing an IP address.
Try the following C code, you would find out the answer.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

int main()
{
    printf("%lu\n", htonl(inet_addr("83.211.166.179")));
    return 0;
}

it prints out 1406379699.


2006/3/11, Brian Dessent <brian@...sent.net>:
> Jianqiang Xin wrote:
>
> > I received several phishing emails. One interesting thing is the link
> > to phishing website has the link:
> > http://1406379699/dbweb/ws/ebay/index.htm
>
> This is a very old technique.  Most people think that dotted-quad
> decimal is the only way to express an IP address but they can in fact be
> written in a variety of formats - octal, hexadecimal, and/or combined as
> a single 32 bit word.  Read <http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm> for
> more.
>
> Brian
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