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How Interesting is Your IP Address?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

SKicker writes "This site gives your IP a score based on how interesting it is. Its silly and pointless but fun." Thank god my IP is a full house. Wonder which one of you has the royal flush and prime number IP!

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  1. It's almost slashdotted ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can somebody post a mirror?

    1. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by FalconZero · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, it's a dynamic page, which according to the site does several pattern matching algorithms (hence the severe slashdot effect - see my below post)

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    2. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah I know ... was just hoping somebody could complete the joke and link to a mirror anyways ... :)

    3. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by space_juice · · Score: 5, Interesting

      My new business plan. 1) Post some stupid application everyday that does nothing productive or useful. 2) Try to get it posted to slashdot. 3) Make sure it crashes under any type of heavy use. 4) Put google ads on the page. 5) Sit back, play some Call of Duty, and laugh about how I use to have to work for a living.

    4. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by starmeup · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Kind of more of the same thing, but until you can check your own "nothing interesting about it" IP address, you can see what they think about one of Googles IP: Googlebot

  2. bah by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is nothing remarkable about your IP address.

    Well, *I* could have told you that.

    But seriously, don't you think that this site might potentially be trolling for vulnerable systems?

    1. Re:bah by ggvaidya · · Score: 4, Funny

      Anybody could be doing that - everybody on the net knows your IP, right?

    2. Re:bah by Ubi_NL · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No
      If you want that, than you can more easily post some porn as the people who even know what an IP address is tend to have secure machines.

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    3. Re:bah by B3ryllium · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, would you rather have 16 billion junk IPs, or a few hundred thousand that have confirmed Web Browser variants (UserAgents) and geographic regions on the other end?

    4. Re:bah by j-cloth · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And again, how is this site any different than any other website on the net in terms of the information available to it?

    5. Re:bah by digidave · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course, because IPs of Slashdotters are probably much more vulnerable than those of random web users.

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    6. Re:bah by slavemowgli · · Score: 2, Funny

      There's no 16 billion junk IPs, simply because there's no 16 billion IPs, at least not as long as you limit yourself to IPv4 (which I assume we do). About one quarter of that address space is reserved, anyway, and then there's a few subnets (10.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16, at least) which are also not for public use, so that leaves you with less than three billion IP addresses. Still a lot of junk in there, of course, but I'd say "try to attack the boxes attached to random IPs" still won't just work, but will in fact work better than trying phish for "valid" IP addresses. (With "work better" as in "require less effort and yield results faster".)

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    7. Re:bah by njh · · Score: 2, Informative

      Even more basic, 2^32 is only 4 billion.

  3. Slashdot effect in action... by FalconZero · · Score: 4, Informative

    This site includes an IP counter. I'm guessing 20,000 IPs in the first hour (or the server crashes...)

    14:10GMT - 1951 IP's
    14:21GMT - 3170 IP's
    14:27GMT - Sorry non-subscribers. We broke it before you got here....

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    1. Re:Slashdot effect in action... by MintyGreen · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Not quite. I'm a non-subscriber, and I managed to get one hit in (awww, a 7!) before it proclaimed they'd been "dugg/slashdotted."

      And what's this? An ad (for "DocMonster") that wasn't there before. Advertising opportunity? Interesting.

  4. I'm seventh! by someonewhois · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Your IP address has scored: 39. This is ranked #7 of the 3507 IP's spotted so far."

    I guess the slashdot crowd hasn't hit it yet? I have two "241"s in my IP address today (strange) which lead to 28 points in and of itself. ;)

    Anyone know how the bitmap or poker hand was calculated?

    1. Re:I'm seventh! by serialdogma · · Score: 4, Informative

      On the bitmap, and IP address is 4bytes, or 32bits. On a black and white bitmap you can map each 1 to a white, 0 to a black and add a fixxed width and bingo your bitmap.
      The poker could be done in a pretty much the same way just convert it to a diffent base, and look at what digits you get.

    2. Re:I'm seventh! by Terrasque · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Your IP address has scored: -2. This is ranked #7166 of the 7166 IP's spotted so far."

      My life in a nutshell, really..

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  5. 192.168.1.100 by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn thing ain't working!

  6. Looks like a spammer site by superflytnt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your IP is interesting only if there is a vulnerability to exploit, so they can turn your PC into a spam-spewing zombie. In that regard, I prefer to be boring.

  7. This is CRAP by ellem · · Score: 3, Funny

    My IP got a 1! Damn them! Damn those bastards! Do you know how long it's going to take to change my IPs and reconfigure the VPN?

    Well yeah from 8-72 hours... but still.

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  8. Gee, thanks. by Mondoz · · Score: 4, Funny

    "There is nothing remarkable about your IP address."

    Much like the hundreds of bottle caps tell me; I am not a winner.

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  9. 66.35.250.150 by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    66.35.250.150

    Your IP address can turn servers into slag.

  10. Nothing remarkable? by republican+gourd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing remarkable? I'm crushed. I thought my IP address was unique :'(

  11. Apart from being slashdotted by Illserve · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think this isn't really worth a front page article. I can't use the thing because it's already down, but I'm guessing that someone's got some 10 line algorithm that looks for primes or squares in your IP and computes some kind of score. It's not that it's not nerdy, or not interesting, it's just not enough.

    This would be better suited for slashback.

    1. Re:Apart from being slashdotted by DrMcCoy · · Score: 3, Informative

      And you do realise that you failed to understand a simple sentence? He didn't say "It's not that nerdy", but "It's not that it's not nerdy", which is quite a difference...

  12. Here's a Special one by slashbob22 · · Score: 4, Funny

    72.3.211.135: Your IP is super special. You are not only the location of www.ipspotting.com BUT you are also being slashdotted.

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  13. Mine doesn't work :| by REBloomfield · · Score: 3, Funny

    5F05:2000:80AD:5800:0058:0800:2023:2F8E

  14. nothing new by phlegmofdiscontent · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know if this is the same site, but I saw one a couple months ago that determines how interesting your social security number is. The funny thing is, my SSN was deemed completely uninteresting because "we could not find any accounts with any money in them". Seriously, though, one has to wonder if a site like this could be used in phishing. How interesting is your credit card number? How interesting is your drivers license number? How interesting is your social security number, etc. I'd be willing to bet people will willingly input all those numbers...at will.

  15. re: it's now slashdotted ... by ed.han · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i feel bad for these guys...i'm now getting the following message:

    "we've been dugg/slashdotted.. back in a bit"

    dugg? can anybody help me with that?

    ed

  16. If only by megacia · · Score: 3, Funny

    they had a web server with +5 against ping damage.

    1. Re:If only by cashman73 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damn. My IP address scored "-1 Troll".

  17. it knows a lot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It gave me this message: "come out of Comcast's dynamic IP you coward!"

  18. Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    CHLOE: "Jack tell me your IP address so I can upload this decryption program."

    [ The memoirs of PRESIDENT PALMER are hidden from view because he changed the font! ]

    JACK BAUER: "OK, it's 292, dot, 162, dot, 12, dot, 2."

    CHLOE: "Thanks!"

    I guess in the future world of 24 we're on IPv8.

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    1. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Glasswire · · Score: 3, Funny

      Could have made an inside joke out of it by saying his address was 192.168.1.1

    2. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by BoredAtWorkWhatElse · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Or 127.0.0.1 ^^

    3. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Durandal64 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      They've always put invalid IP's in the show, probably to stop people from actually going to those IP's. Just ask Mark Hammil about what can happen when your phone number is put in a movie. :)

      The more glaring errors in the show come when Chloe is running around the office just spouting jargon off. Like in last night's episode, someone made a comment about modifying a header file to grant privileges. Chloe also mentioned an "NP-safe" algorithm for facial recognition in one episode. (NP is a classification of problems, not algorithms.)

      One thing I have always liked about the show is that they tend to use real interfaces on their computers, not some stylized slideshow. When Jack looks up the computer's IP address in the exchange you mention, he actually goes to the proper place in Mac OS X: the Network preference pane. Everything is laid out exactly as it should be. He opens Palmer's memoirs with the actual version of Microsoft Word for OS X.

  19. Your IP is V6 by netrangerrr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried browsing using an IPv6 connection.
    Got a message saying that "we've been slashdotted"...
    Shouldn't that be slashcoloned?

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  20. Chuck Norris' IP Address by Himring · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank god my IP is a full house

    Chuck Norris' IP address is a round house....

    Yes, mod this down plz....

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  21. Re: it's now slashdotted ... by Emil+Brink · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sure, that's a reference to the page being featured on Digg.com. Not sure if it actually has been, haven't checked. But if it has, it wouldn't be the first time Slashdot and Digg post the same stories.

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  22. Who has 69.69.69.69? by BiggRanger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that would be a million dollar web page!

  23. "Your computer is broadcasting your IP address" by adnonsense · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every time you connect to the Internet, send email or access a web site, you are broadcasting this unique address. With this address, someone can immediately begin attacking your computer. Aware of this, reputable software manufacturers such as Microsoft have taken steps to mitigate this issue by making it more difficult to access the internet. However there are still many sites which use deceptive techniques such as "rewards" of "interesting information" to persuade innocent surfers to reveal their IP address and thus open themselves up to "hacking" attacks.

    As a responsible Slashdotter I'd therefore like to proposed a new community-based "vigilante scheme" to tackle such sites. If everyone who is confident their IP address is invulnerable to hacks accesses this kind of site all at once, we can put them out of action and thus protect innocent web surfers with weaker or lower-quality IP addresses. We could call this action "Slashdotting".

  24. You get +5 for World Cup by lzmbr · · Score: 2, Informative

    The country this IP is from (Brazil) has won the World Cup 5 times (+5) heh.

  25. Get Married in October! by TeamSPAM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since the site is /.'d, I can't see how my address ranks. For my home network, I use the private IPs from the 10 net. This allows me to have my wedding aniversary as the first 3 octets of the IP address.

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  26. Re: it's now slashdotted ... by Helios1182 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It happens all the time. See: http://diggvsdot.com/

  27. 10th lowest by DJ+Rubbie · · Score: 2, Funny

    I punched in the current IP address of my server... and...

    Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #64524 of the 64534 IP's spotted so far.

    That hurt =/

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