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https://172.93.49.252

https://172.93.49.252/settings

https://172.93.49.252/submit/

This website has some forgotten www features that are becoming rare thanks to Big Tech, Big CDNs, and their followers:

1. It does not require SNI (SNI was added to TLS in 2003)

2. It publishes a stable IP address. See https://172.93.49.252/submit/

One can use an IP address _or_ a domain name (any domain name will work) to reach it

3. It is available via HTTP as well as HTTPS

http://172.93.49.252

For old time's sake, try requesting via HTTPS and then HTTP and see if you notice a speed difference

To get a starting list of potential web sites, freely available DNS zone files (public information) remain available

Every major www search engine has used these files at some point

https://czds.icann.org/

People often refer to DNS as the internet's "phone book"

If that is true, then DNS queries are "directory assistance"

The actual phone book is the zone files

Perhaps we need a wiby.me for DNS to select from all those NS and A records that go undiscovered

djbdns has a program called "random-ip"

   random-ip|sed 1q
Besides PTR queries, there is an adundance of freely accessible databases to fecth information about an IP address

This can often lead to a discovering random website

The type of website that is worthless to so-called "tech" companies and their online surveillance advertising "business model"



Note to self. Originally received +1


Likely reason: site became inaccessible


Now it's working again.


Note to self, but accidentally posted in public?




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