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Shortest URLs on the Internet

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Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

#101

Post by snvzz »

Interestingly, in my lan:

dig ai @ googledns works

dig ai @ unbound works (DoT cloudflare behind)

dig ai @ dnsmasq NXDOMAIN (openwrt, forwards to unbound)

Thus something's up with openwrt (22.03.0 release) dnsmasq, or dnsmasq in general.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

#102

Post by londons_explore »

snvzz wrote: post #101

Interestingly, in my lan: dig ai @ googledns works dig ai @ unbound works (DoT cloudflare behind) dig ai @ dnsmasq NXDOMAIN (openwrt, forwards to unbound) Thus something's up with openwrt (22.03.0 release) dnsmasq, or dnsmasq in general.

This explains why many home users can't connect - a lot of home broadband routers use dnsmasq internally.

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

#103

Post by easrng »

snvzz wrote: post #101

Interestingly, in my lan: dig ai @ googledns works dig ai @ unbound works (DoT cloudflare behind) dig ai @ dnsmasq NXDOMAIN (openwrt, forwards to unbound) Thus something's up with openwrt (22.03.0 release) dnsmasq, or dnsmasq in general.

Try "ai."

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

#105

Post by [deleted] »

vesinisa wrote: post #98

All the domains have an invalid TLS certificate. Now, it would be very interesting to see the process for actually obtaining a valid certificate for one of these. Anyone know if there are reasons one could not be obtained?

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Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

#106

Post by epuixrk »

camoufleur wrote: post #88
ktpsns wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still can type "ai." (including the dot, excluding the quotation) in your browser. Works in firefox (tested in 104), however does not work in Chrome (tested in Chromium 105).

" http://ai ." works in Chrome

well obviously, he meant without the protocol at the beginning

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

#107

Post by RockRobotRock »

shpx wrote: post #28
bdn_ wrote: post #11

At one point of time, ` http://to ` resolved to a "It works!" page [1]. I've always thought it would be cool to have a URL shortener with links such as ` https://to/library ` or something similar. Oh, how much fun running your own TLD would be... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150319211308/http://to/

At Google and many other tech companies, internal machines are configured to have go/ work just like you describe. Looks like someone even made a whole company around it https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/

Intel had that when I worked there

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

#108

Post by easrng »

Nextgrid wrote: post #95
Aachen wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shorter: ftp://1 Anyone knows a shorter protocol name that is widely supported/known?

I think on Windows machines you can use `\\` to access a machine via SMB, so `\\1` would be the shortest if you're happy with Windows-only.

//1 turns into file:///1 everywhere AFAIK

Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet

#109

Post by oarmstrong »

geraldcombs wrote: post #64
oarmstrong wrote: post #14

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Addressing > IPv4 addresses may be represented in any notation expressing a 32-bit integer value. I remember reading a man page that explained this really succinctly but I cannot remember which one it was. A tool like ping I believe.

Was it inet_aton? https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=inet_aton&sektion=...

Bingo!
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