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Spammers
See also how to hex a domain.
Mindworkshop has got some basic info on how to trace spammers.
Some spam generators like to express their URLs as somewhat impenetrable-looking numbers, such
as http://3637542882. This looks a bit daunting, as it's not a domain and it's not an IP address. At
least, it doesn't seem to be one.
In fact, those long numbers are IP addresses – they're just expressed in a way intended to make
them hard to work with. You can create one by treating the four sections of an IP address as four
distinct numbers. The IP address for the Alchemy Mindworks web server, for example, is
216.208.127.226. Here's how to convert this address into a quasi-meaningless string of numbers:
216 × 16,777,216 + 208 × 65536 + 127 × 256 + 226
The formula is:
Use this javascript to calculate it automatically:
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