'Stealth' domain-name

[bofh]

Hello folks :)

Some hosting-providers / redirection providers provide
a 'stealth' function, where the domain-name is saved in the URL bar. Meaning, when you type http://www.nl-bofh.com now, it changes to www.xs4all.nl/~bitwise/nl-bofh (http://www.xs4all.nl/~bitwise/nl-bofh) and with stealthing it stays as www.nl-bofh.com (http://www.nl-bofh.com)

Does FQ offer this in any way?

Thank you for your attention!

Andre de Vet, NL

(edited for I goofed :) )
[This message has been edited by bofh (edited 08-05-99)]

[Deb]

Hello Andre,

If the web site that the domain name is being redirected to is not on our servers then the URL will in fact change to the URL where the web site is located at.

If the web site that the domain name is being redirected to is on our servers, then the URL will maintain it's structure with the Domain Name being what you see and the 'actual' URL remaining hidden.

HTH
Deb
[nbsp]-
[nbsp][nbsp]p.s. you may also want to view http://www.FutureQuest.net/irm.html for more info.

[Rich]

While we are on the subject of stealth:

I occasionally get a piece of spam mail that says something like "visit http://348785" for more info.

How is this done? Is this from someone that has "diddled" with the DNS entries?

Rich

[bofh]

>If the web site that the domain name is being redirected to >is not on our servers then the URL will in fact
>change to the URL where the web site is located at.

Ah. I gathered as much from the redirection info pages. I understand this is not a service you offer (for a price)?

Reason I ask: I have no need for a 'full' domain. I have some space, and have no need for PHP and such. It would however be nice if the URL remained as www.nl-bofh.com (http://www.nl-bofh.com). It would be slightly wastefull for me to pay 25$ a month just for that :(

Andre

[Deb]

Just to clarify... it's not $25 per month.[nbsp][nbsp]It is a $25 setup fee.[nbsp][nbsp]Once the setup fee is paid there are no other fees.[nbsp][nbsp]There is also a place at http://www.redirectme.com/ that I understand will do the redirections for free.[nbsp][nbsp]I'm not quite sure what the details are but you may want to check them out.

[Terra]

something like "visit http://348785" for more info.

It is a valid address that is munged into an inet address form...

The formula, if I remember correctly is:
(x>>24)+"."+((x>>16)&255)+"."+((x>>8)&255)+"."+(x&255)

Doing the match, that number equals IP address (dotted quad form):
0.5.82.113

###This is only proof of concept, I just whipped up!
Quick perl script to demunge that: (NOT Tested!)
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict

my $inet = shift || usage();
$inet =~ /^\d+$/ or usage();

demunge($inet);
sub demunge {
[nbsp][nbsp]my $x=shift;
[nbsp][nbsp]print "And the dotted quad is:\n";
[nbsp][nbsp]print (x>>24),".",((x>>16)&255),".",((x>>8)&255),".",(x&255),"\n";
}
sub usage {
[nbsp][nbsp]die "Please enter a valid inet address\n";
}
__END__

--
Terra
--Within complexity lives simplicity--
FutureQuest
[This message has been edited by ccTech (edited 08-05-99)]

[Justin]

Some hosting-providers / redirection providers provide a 'stealth' function, where the domain-name is saved in the URL bar
What they are doing is putting up a frames page with a single frame. This single frame links to your real site...

This is a bad idea, though, because you can't bookmark a page - it would always show just the domain name without any path or filename... it's a simple, cheap way of providing a redirect.

Hope this helps.

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest Support

[jokesplus]

[quote]
something like "visit http://348785" for more info.
[quote]

Alternative to Terra's script is to run the munged IP address through the decipher option at www.samspade.org (http://www.samspade.org).

Jarrod

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http://www.jokesplus.com

[YFS200]

I had one of the redirection services before I moved to FQ.
It just forwarded everything from www.yourdomain.com (http://www.yourdomain.com) to www.host.com/~mypage (http://www.host.com/~mypage).[nbsp][nbsp]And it did show www.host.com/~mypage (http://www.host.com/~mypage) after the redirection.

Just before I left, they offered a "URL lock down" so it only showed www.yourdomain.com (http://www.yourdomain.com) in the URL. It worked, but the combo of frames and Java used caused chaos with some of my pages. In the end I turned it off.

Eddie
[nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp]

[bofh]

Justing, YFS200,

Thank you both. That was all I needed to know!

Deb,

I am aware of the pricing scheme for redirection, since I paid already and have no intentions to do so again :)

And once again, may I thank you all for the fast reply? You guys are wunnerful :)

Andre

[Charles Capps]

On a totally different topic...[nbsp][nbsp]I take it your site is an attempt to translate the BOFH?[nbsp][nbsp]:)

[bofh]

>On a totally different topic...[nbsp][nbsp]I take it your site is an >attempt to translate the BOFH?

Well, that certainly is an idea. Originally I 'took' the domain-name as vanity-domain. I just discovered the fun in HTML building, so there are some more plans for nl-bofh. The website will definatly be a platform for the dutch version of 'the Monastery' (nl.support.sysadmin).

Andre

[novak]

hello , i m interested in stelth redirection too.How can i do that??Can some cgi script do that?.Is ; it possibile to redirect national domens all that for free. i need it free ;cose i m from yugoslavia and i have not a visa and mastercard...

looking forward 4 u answer
Novak