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A URL Lengthener

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Re: A URL Lengthener

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That's very weird! How did you even find this?

Sometimes instead of typing google.com I end up typing gooooooooogle.com

that doesn't seem to work for me. example: http://gooooooooogle.com

Speaking of sketchy websites :)

Would have been cool though if someone at google had bought all gooo... domains.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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Re: A URL Lengthener

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Huh, this is weird! The DNS record is no longer in the root zone itself (I think it used to be?) and some recursive resolvers seem to filter out the bare-TLD query or response. But the A record still exists inside the ai zone... so I'm not sure who is right, so to speak!

The A record was never in the root zone. The root zone has an NS record for ai TLD which delegates authority to ai nameservers. You can try `dig @a.root-servers.net ai NS` to get the nameserver `a.lactld.org.` which is authoritative for ai. You can now try `dig @a.lactld.org ai A` to get it (that's how recursive resolves generally work)

Yeah, so I think I'm seeing something weird where some software isn't allowing this particular recursive query? I'll dig into it more.

By the way:

> The A record was never in the root zone.

Are you sure of that? I don't have any proof, but my impression was that the DNS registry for ai (which was also just Vince Cate...) was able to ask for it because at one time the root zone was less restrictive in what RRtypes could be placed there for TLDs. But that might just be repeating someone else's mistaken impression.

OK, I went and looked in the Internet Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20090716164810/http://www.intern...

and this version of the root zone from 2009 does indeed not have an A record for ai, just ordinary NS delegations. So it seems like your explanation is confirmed, and there must be a change in some recursive resolver behavior. (I tried from four different Linux systems on different networks and all refused to resolve it, so there really must be something that's changed more widely, not just my home router.)

Re: A URL Lengthener

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Below is a link I generated for https://twitter.com/home http://www.5z8.info/winamp-cracked.exe_x8c5se_how2pipebomb Thank you for this, I laughed hard.

That totally reminds me of this story: http://www.5z8.info/awesome-real-life-headshots_q2h6fv_linke...

This is a great story, thanks for sharing!

Edit: if someone need the url at work: https://m.slashdot.org/story/17042

Re: A URL Lengthener

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I guess I'm not the only one drinking tonight. =)

Anyway, cool project. It's okay to build something for a laugh every now then. I know these days sometimes I forget I used to do this for fun. Have a good weekend all.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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The A record was never in the root zone. The root zone has an NS record for ai TLD which delegates authority to ai nameservers. You can try `dig @a.root-servers.net ai NS` to get the nameserver `a.lactld.org.` which is authoritative for ai. You can now try `dig @a.lactld.org ai A` to get it (that's how recursive resolves generally work)

Yeah, so I think I'm seeing something weird where some software isn't allowing this particular recursive query? I'll dig into it more. By the way: > The A record was never in the root zone. Are you sure of that? I don't have any proof, but my impression was that the DNS registry for ai (which was also just Vince Cate...) was able to ask for it because at one time the root zone was less restrictive in what RRtypes cou…

You can try http://ai./

Re: A URL Lengthener

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I've worked in such places. The reason it is that way is because you will receive a broken description/specification/story of what you are supposed to implement. You have a choice to make when that happens, you either implement it as specified or you reject it because it is broken. The problem is that if you do reject it then it will take about 6 months to get back a specification that is broken in another way and th…

Enterprise developer here. Exactly this. If you reject the spec, you won't get another one before the deadline that was committed before you got the spec you want to reject.

Instead of implementing the obvious intention of the spec and waiting to see if anyone complains?

Re: A URL Lengthener

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Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly a full sentence. I don't recall the limit but this domain aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com is 57 characters (not including .com) and I think that sounds familiar. One could have a lot of fun with that if they wanted to (and such as…

I was aware of that place name, and clicked the link hoping to find an audio file or link to youtube video that would give an example of how to pronounce it.

Re: A URL Lengthener

#220
Chia coin html internet

Interesting where is frontier who can make most long 256+ url shorters & lengther vector hahah

like tiny.cc -> aaaaaaaa...aaa -> goog.gl -> bbb...bb -> etc

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