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Someone was really bored...
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Lol. How did you stumble on that?
BTW for those of us with a near phobia of the Terminal you can run that address through Traceroute from the Network Utility that is in your Utilities folder.
BTW for those of us with a near phobia of the Terminal you can run that address through Traceroute from the Network Utility that is in your Utilities folder.
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That's my question! That's fantastic.
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Or for those on the iPad: Traceroute, Ping, Domain Name Server (DNS) Lookup, WHOIS trace 216.81.59.173
Quite good..
Quite good..
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Im not silly but what the heck does that all mean. . . . Someone wanted to fight the Empire ?? But why all that with a bunch of TraceRoutes??
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TM, just a clever DNS configuration and is bouncing within a persons domain, not the increasing Number at the end when the Star Wars verse begins..it's silly and fun..
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