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Can anyone explain the URL to me?

• entropie 14y ago
  Its not an URL. Its an IP.
  • arcatek 14y ago
    Well, even if it's an IP, it is still a URL.
  • geuis 14y ago
    "a URL". One doesn't say "an uniform resource locator".
    • cbr 14y ago
      People who pronounce "URL" as "earl" say "an URL". (One of my coworkers does this, Australian if it helps.)
      • sturmeh 14y ago
        Although it's not correctly pronounced as earl. (You sound each letter separately.) So using "an" would be yet another mistake.
        • marshray 14y ago
          Lol.
  • sturmeh 14y ago
    It is a URL, the host component is simply provided as an IP address instead of a Domain, so that the domain cannot be stricken from DNS records in order to take the site down.
• deleted 14y ago
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• hartror 14y ago
  looks like just an ip to me: http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=ptr%3a54.243.29.30 http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=ptr%3a54.243.29.3...
• Sidnicious 14y ago
  It's a normal URL, but with an IP address in the domain part. Your browser normally uses a DNS server to resolve the domain name portion of a URL to the hosting server's IP address — news.ycombinator.com resolves to 174.132.225.106, for example — but it skips that step if it sees something that looks like an IP address itself. (In either case, it tells the server what the original hostname was, so that it's possible to host more than one website at a single IP address.)
  • MrJagil 14y ago
    Thank you!