RE: host numbers

[LENGARD Pascal OCISI <pascal.lengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

it does not need to be resolved since you gave directly the IP number ...
DNS resolve names into numbers, here it is pointless.
(you can do reverse-dns-lookups to find a name corresponding to the   
number)

hope this helps
pascal

 -----Original Message-----
From: Sharad Joshi [SMTP:sharadj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 7:25 AM
To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: host numbers

Hi ppl,

My apologies in advance for a slightly off topic question. Please tell me
a better place to pose this, if this is "dislocated" :)

Just got this in a mail, a url of the form <http://3488905759> And this
successfully goes to some location (which is not important to the
discussion here).

Rfc2068 (http/1.1) clearly states in section 3.2.2 (http url) :

          http_URL       = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path ]
          host           = <A legal Internet host domain name
                            or IP address (in dotted-decimal form),
                            as defined by Section 2.1 of RFC 1123>
          port           = *DIGIT

Note the line "in dotted decimal form". So how the DNS name of this
iphost is resolved?

Sharad.

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