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LeonLanford:
yesterday I encountered something strange (real ip is at the image name)



I encountered this before but when I want to copy the ip, the peer is already gone.

just curious, is someone know a way how to do this? :D

Jarudin:
Heisenbug? ;D

Maybe you have some kind of proxying going on where all traffic is routed over localhost?

--Jarudin--

LeonLanford:

--- Quote from: Jarudin on August 28, 2010, 12:59:25 PM ---Heisenbug? ;D

Maybe you have some kind of proxying going on where all traffic is routed over localhost?

--Jarudin--

--- End quote ---

I don't have proxy or router here, also I'm directly connected to internet and can make my computer as web server :D

Just curious because I encountered this 2-3 times already :P

(click to show/hide)ah this topic moved from lounge, I thought it's just for fun discussing though :P

boxer4:
keep in mind people have done silly things and have reverse resolve point to localhost.  I can't remember any who did this (as I've run across some IP addresses who reverse-resolve to localhost), but it is a pretty evil thing to do.  It's definitely possible.  However it's clearly not legitimate.

I'd be on a vigilante to make sure reverse(IP)=forward(IP).  That's the way it should be, but people decide to do funny things with DNS and thus break things...

LeonLanford:
it's evil thing to do? it can break things? why they're doing that? just for fun or it can increase download speed? can you explain more please? :D

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