If a user has the newest winsock patch for winsock 2.0, which can be located at : http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/ws2.htm and attempts to do an address lookup on a address which doesn't exist and is 13 characters long winsock will fault. This has been reproduced on several computers and it takes a couple of seconds of looking up to occur. This happens with every winsock program I've tested including Netscape 3, Ie 3.0, and MS ping. Example sites that work are: www.socois.cool www.pcorner.org blahd.yahoo.com This apparently only works on names that are exactly 13 characters long (not including periods). This is dangerous because web pages can simply redirect browswers to these pages or put img sources equal to nonexistent address entries which will crash winsock. johnr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Robinson johnrat_private jjr4693at_private robinsonat_private "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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