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- I have been getting firewall hits from 152.2.48.83 (FTP) [javascript:show_it(“152.2.48.83”)] - usually when I connect to this site, but not all the time. The link goes to something called ARIN WHOIS / http://www.arin.net/whois — says something about domain system inverse mapping. — It only happens once per visit. I usually open threads into another window. I’m running a 56K dialup, is this something concerning the SDMB or is it something else? - MC
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Sam Spade returns azazello.chem.unc.edu that is on a server at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Most of the snoopers that Zone Alarm catches sniffing me out are media companies (Time-Warner tries to look under my hood several times a day) that I imagine are doing marketing research. I couldn’t make a connection with the above listed addy.
MC - ARIN is a registry service for IP addresses. The reason Zone Alarm links to there is to provide you the information like that beatle just gave you - a lookup on the IP address that poked you. “Domain system inverse mapping provided by” is part of that listing, telling you which servers told ARIN about that block of IP addresses. The top of the page was intended to let you know that the address was out of a block assigned to UNC. You may wish to lookup IP addresses with some other service - that ARIN listing will usually only tell you who a block of IP’s is registered to, and an admin contact.
Your link didn’t work.
But here’s what I found based on the name you used
http://www.samspade.org/
Fight spam, it says. Good luck on that one!
Yeah, it looks like I had a typo ("," intead of “.”); you’ve got what I was trying to link. Thanks.
That comma wasn’t all of it. The front was wrong, too.
Somehow your link had become
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/www,samspade.org
The board coding page instructions say this:
You can now have true hyperlinks using the code. Just use the following format:
vBulletin Home Page
Maybe you need the http part to make it work.
Aggh! You can’t show what the instructions are because they turned into a link.
But anyway they show starting the link with http://