Sometimes, I don’t know why I try??
Why is it that Cisco, one of the largest networking companies in the world, cannot resolve a simple hostname in a URL?!? I submitted a spam email to Spamcop that included the URL “http://www.med72.com/”. When Spamcop tried to process the email, it said the following:
Finding links in message bodyParsing text part
Resolving link obfuscationhttp://www.med72.com/
Host www.med72.com (checking ip) IP not found ; www.med72.com discarded as fake.Tracking link: http://www.med72.com/Cannot resolve http://www.med72.com/
Funny, but it resolves for me just fine:
D:\>nslookup www.med72.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.2.1Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.med72.com
Addresses: 60.191.239.150, 61.191.191.241, 218.75.144.6, 119.39.238.2
203.93.208.86
I don’t think Spamcop is trying very hard to fulfill this service (a service that they make plenty of money from).
#1 by Alex on July 9, 2009 - 7:08 pm
Cisco is definitely so large that they can easily screw up otherwise useful web sites. Take a look at what they’ve done with the Linksys web site (www.linksys.com). Previously when I needed a firmware update or information on a Linksys product I just brought up their web site, plugged in the model number of the Linksys appliance I was interested in and voila! very quick info. Try looking for their RVL200 (SSL/VPN router). Let me know how long it took you to track it down. It took me the better part of 10 minutes. I don’t think Cisco is all that interested in selling Linksys products anymore.
-Alex
#2 by admin on October 27, 2010 - 5:36 pm
Looks like Cisco hasn’t gotten any better. I still see plenty of hostnames that Cisco can’t resolve, yet my computer has no problems with:
Tracking link: http://enlargementpillhealthrx.net/
No recent reports, no history available
Cannot resolve http://enlargementpillhealthrx.net/
I guess it’s not easy to set up alternate DNS servers to lookup IP addresses when you’re one of the largest Internet companies in the world?!?
#3 by admin on March 31, 2011 - 12:12 pm
OK – let me just say that I’m sure that Spamcop isn’t “in bed with the spammers”. Even so, if I had their resources, I don’t think it would be that difficult to outsmart these “smart DNS servers” that the spammers have set up to outsmart Spamcop?