On Sat, 13 May 2006, Bob Barr wrote:

> 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?

No, but the above redirection is a stupid joke. Probably the people who 
set it up either did not understand what they were doing or they had a 
weird sense of humor.

Assume you would buy a domain and have to park it. The easiest way is to 
redirect it to something that belongs to someone else. But 127.0.0.1 
belongs to *everyone*. <g>

Peter
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