On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 08:44 -0700, Bob Barr wrote:
> On Sat, 13 May 2006 10:28:46 -0400, Robert Ussery wrote:
> 
> >it's just a redirect to 127.0.0.1 - if you have a server daemon running 
> >on your computer, you'll see a site - if not, no site.
> >
> 
> I can't access the site with IE6 or Opera so, apparently, I don't have
> a server daemon running on my computer. When I ping 'www.xicor.com',
> it does show the pings to '127.0.0.1'.
> 
> Is this requirement for very many websites? How would one know that
> the site isn't just down? 
> 
> Does running a server daemon open up your computer to any security
> vulnerabilities?

I think you've misunderstood something. A host name resolving to
127.0.0.1 isn't normal, basically it means the site is down or can't
accept any more traffic.

No operating site would redirect to 127.0.0.1 because that would point
your browser to the web server on your own machine. If you have one that
page will show up. If you don't nothing will show up.

TTYL

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