On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 20:38 +0300, Peter wrote:
> 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.

Actually it's the best solution when you've run out of bandwidth. By
redirecting to 127.0.0.1 you effectively use the least possible
bandwidth per hit without actually having to turn off anything.

Since most people don't run a web server on their own machine the result
is "web page not available", exactly the error the site operator would
want.

Personally I don't like it as a solution since it CAN confuse people
depending on how their web browser reports the error.

TTYL

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