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I was curious if browsing via ip still works, and at least for Y! it does. $ dig yahoo.com [ ... ] ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 1153 IN A 98.139.

by earl 14y ago

I was curious if browsing via ip still works, and at least for Y! it does. $ dig yahoo.com [ ... ] ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 1153 IN A 98.139.183.24 plugging 98.139.183.24 into the omnibar on chrome leads to yahoo just fine [1] [1] https://img.skitch.com/20120426-gdhrn9wpum12y39ifui3um37b2.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20120426-gdhrn9wpum12y39ifui3um37b2.j...

eck 14y ago
That is because yahoo has its own servers and yahoo.com is the only website at that IP. For mere mortals like me with a dreamhost account or something, there's probably dozens of sites on the same IP, so your computer has to first connect to the IP then send the HTTP "Host:" header to say what site it wants.