How Interesting is Your IP Address?

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!

It's almost slashdotted ...

[ggvaidya]

Can somebody post a mirror?

Re:It's almost slashdotted ...

[FalconZero]

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 [slashdot.org])

Re:It's almost slashdotted ...

[ggvaidya]

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

Re:It's almost slashdotted ...

[starmeup]

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 [64.233.179.104]

re: it's now slashdotted ...

[ed.han]

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

Re: it's now slashdotted ...

[Emil Brink]

Sure, that's a reference to the page being featured on Digg.com [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.

Re: it's now slashdotted ...

[Helios1182]

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

Re:It's almost slashdotted ...

[space_juice]

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.

bah

[B3ryllium]

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?

Re:bah

[ggvaidya]

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

Re:bah

[B3ryllium]

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?

Re:bah

[j-cloth]

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

Re:bah

[digidave]

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

Re:bah

[slavemowgli]

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" st

Re:bah

[njh]

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

Re:bah

[Ubi_NL]

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.

Proof that all counting numbers are interesting.

[pavon]

For best effect read this joke in the accent of a drunk scottish math professor.

Suppose that there were some uninteresting counting numbers. They would be ordered, and would be greater than zero. Therefore there must be a first uninteresting number.

Well now, that's pretty interesting.

So that site is obviously wrong :)

Re:bah

[petermgreen]

so could any other site you visit on the web. not that i'm convinced /. would be a good place to post such a troll, somewhere orientated to net newbies would be far more effective at getting vulnerable ips.

Re:bah

[Syberghost]

The other day I had, over a period of about 58 minutes, 4037 unsuccessful attempts at my root password from a single IP address at a University in Italy. This is a slightly unusual number, but a completely average occurance. Evidently they don't need the help of a site like this to find me.

I wish that kid had checked this site first; he'd have seen my IP is completely unremarkable. And if he wanted root on a Linux box that badly, I'd have sent him an Ubuntu CD.

Slashdot effect in action...

[FalconZero]

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....

Re:Slashdot effect in action...

[MintyGreen]

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.

Re:Slashdot effect in action...

[MindStalker]

7! ? wouldn't that be 5040 aka 0.0.19.176 ?

Re:

[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

I'm seventh!

[someonewhois]

"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?

Re:I'm seventh!

[serialdogma]

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.

Re:I'm seventh!

[ParisTG]

You can figure this out by trial and error just by typing in a bunch of carefully crafted IP addresses.

The bitmap is as you describe, except with the 4 corner pixels missing. So its a 6x6 grid, with the first and last rows having only 4 pixels (and centered). 255.255.255.254 shows the full grid (except the last bit). 255.255.255.255 would show the full grid, but the program doesn't want to accept that one.

Try 4.128.133.224 :).

The poker is similar. Starting at the first bit, each "card" is 6 bits,

Re:I'm seventh!

[uigrad_2000]

The four corners are not part of the bitmap. So, for A.B.C.D, the image is

-AAAA-
AAAABB
BBBBBB
CCCCCC
CCDDDD
-DDDD-

I still haven't managed to create anything that it recognizes...

Nor have I. But, here is a square, with the corners cut off:
http://www.ipspotting.com/?IP=248.97.134.31 [ipspotting.com]

For the poker, it turns your IP into a binary, with the most significicant digit first. It throws away the last two bits. Then it takes the 30 bits, and separates them into 5 sets of 6 bits. For each card, the first 2 bits

Re:I'm seventh!

[Terrasque]

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

My life in a nutshell, really..

192.168.1.100

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

Damn thing ain't working!

Get Married in October!

[TeamSPAM]

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.

Looks like a spammer site

[superflytnt]

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.

Re:Looks like a spammer site

[jb.hl.com]

Because it's not like web servers record your user agent, IP address etc by default. No siree.

Re:Looks like a spammer site

[bitslinger_42]

If that's the case, then I enjoy the delicious irony of the spammer being slashdotted into oblivion!

This is CRAP

[ellem]

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.

Lucky bastard. :-)

[Richard Steiner]

This is what I see:

57.250.242.249
Your IP address has scored 0. This is ranked #5531 of the 5531 IPs spotted so far.

Cry me a river!

[sean.peters]

Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #36509 of the 36519 IP's spotted so far.

As if that weren't lame enough, I also appear to be involved in a contest to see whose IP address is the lamest...

***shoots self***

"It's funny. Laugh"

[grimJester]

Never has that text been so inaproppriate. No, not only because my IP gives me "There is nothing remarkable about your IP address."

Gee, thanks.

[Mondoz]

"There is nothing remarkable about your IP address."

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

Re:Gee, thanks.

[squidfood]

There is nothing remarkable about your IP address.

It must be an uninteresting number. [wikipedia.org] (But is it the most uninteresting one?)

Re:Gee, thanks.

[Ray Radlein]

I was obscurely delighted to discover that, according to them, with a score of -1, my IP address was the least interesting one they had seen so far. W00t.

66.35.250.150

[Anne_Nonymous]

66.35.250.150

Your IP address can turn servers into slag.

Nothing remarkable?

[republican gourd]

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

Apart from being slashdotted

[Illserve]

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.

Dugg/Slashdotted...

[Animaether]

At the time of this writing, it's not just Slashdotted - no, it's "Dugg/Slashdotted". Digg gets first mention... poor /. ;)

Re:Apart from being slashdotted

[Rufus211]

Actually it's better suited for a quicky. Anyone remember those?

Re:Apart from being slashdotted

[gid]

Yeah, they quickies were good. There was usually a lot of geeky goodness packed into those, maybe 5 or so links like this one. All of which wouldn't/shouldn't make a full article in themselves.

Re:Apart from being slashdotted

[drinkypoo]

Well, I just got to use it, and I have two jack of spades in my hand, so I got marked down for cheating! This in spite of my whole hand being face cards :) Also, I think it's plenty nerdy. who but nerds would do this? who but nerds would care?

Re:Apart from being slashdotted

[DrMcCoy]

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...

Giving you the bird

[RingDev]

My IP is nothing special (5), but the IP as a bitmap looks like someone flipping the bird.

-Rick

mine

[slashdotnickname]

Mine is pretty cool!

it's got a one, two zeros, and a year number that according to wikipedia [wikipedia.org] nothing ever happened in... i.e peaceful, the way I like it!

Re:mine

[Skidge]

You're calling the birth of Zheng Xuan [wikipedia.org] "nothing"? :)

My next pickup line

[broothal]

"Hi honey. As you no doubt has noticed, there's nothing remarkable about me, but hey - you should check out my IP!"

Here's a Special one

[slashbob22]

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.

Who cares about DNS?

[FridayBob]

Currently, I have the misfortune of having to deal with a moron who'd rather configure everything with IP addresses, because he can't wrap his mind around DNS. Maybe this website is for him.

Mine doesn't work :|

[REBloomfield]

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

nothing new

[phlegmofdiscontent]

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.

it knows a lot!

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[The-Bus]

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.

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[Dr. Manhattan]

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

That's just the IP equivalent of a telephone number like 555-4561. It's not going to correspond to any real address and cause problems [wikipedia.org].

(Of course, they missed out on a chance for some viral marketing, like how "Lost" did a fake airline website...)

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[Glasswire]

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

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[BoredAtWorkWhatElse]

Or 127.0.0.1 ^^

Better than CSI:Miami!

[dimer0]

... last night, I noticed they tracked down a blog entry to an IP address that started with a number in the mid 300s.

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[sglane81]

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

Perhaps they didn't want some random person to get attacked. Same principle as 555-xxxx in phone numbers.

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[Durandal64]

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.

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[barawn]

They've always put invalid IP's in the show

Are they invalid, or reserved ones? I hate it when shows use invalid ones (300.631.42.12 or something like that) when they could just as easily use a reserved IP address. It'd be easy enough to ask any geek "give me an IP address that sounds random, but won't actually be anything", and give them 172.18.101.84 or something similar. (does anyone use the 172.16-31.x.x block?)

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[Durandal64]

Yep. My school uses 172.16.x.x for our internal printers.

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[tholomyes]

Veering offtopic here, but: NP can certainly be used to refer to the order of magnitude of the runtime for the algorithm. Simply put, all of the problems in the NP-Complete class don't (currently) have precise solutions for anything less than a superpolynomial time requirement relative to their input-- and hence the need for faster, sloppier heuristics and approximations.

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[Durandal64]

Veering offtopic here, but: NP can certainly be used to refer to the order of magnitude of the runtime for the algorithm. Simply put, all of the problems in the NP-Complete class don't (currently) have precise solutions for anything less than a superpolynomial time requirement relative to their input-- and hence the need for faster, sloppier heuristics and approximations.

Well personally, I've never heard it used to describe running time. Nor have I ever heard the term "NP-safe" or have any idea what it co

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[tholomyes]

I have heard "NP" used in the context of runtime, but not outside of academia, and I've never heard the term "NP-safe", but I would guess it means "the version of the algorithm that isn't NP and won't take forever to complete". Because sometimes you want to be fast, and sometimes you want to be 100% certain. But I work in security, so certainty is more important, I don't hear much talk about "big O" anymore.

As for whether or not facial recognition is NP: It certainly could be, if your algorithm is "try ev

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[jb.hl.com]

They once used KDE as well. KDE 2.something (ridiculously old) but still...

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[Blakey Rat]

Probably some guy at Fox just realized after all these years that it's cheaper to use ACTUAL computers when filming without bothering to have the prop department (or whatever) mock-up a fake GUI.

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[SleepyHappyDoc]

Probably intentionally invalid, learning from past mistakes. Last season, a prop cellphone number was briefly shown onscreen, and apparently the phone rings constantly in the prop room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(television)#Fan_p hone [wikipedia.org]

Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24

[The-Bus]

They could've made it 69.44.123.70...

Your IP is V6

[netrangerrr]

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

Chuck Norris' IP Address

[Himring]

Thank god my IP is a full house

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

Yes, mod this down plz....

Hell, isnt' 10.10.10.10 interesting? -Damn NAT...

[Glasswire]

...not doubt many of the really interesting ones are obscured...

What would happen

[cra]

Has anyone tried to enter /.'s IP address and see what the result was?

All IP addresses are interesting

[lildogie]

Here's an old saw. [sciencejokes.com]

(The _Devil's_DP_Dictionary_ states that this only serves to prove the converse, that all numbers are uninteresting.)

Who has 69.69.69.69?

[BiggRanger]

Now that would be a million dollar web page!

Re:Who has 69.69.69.69?

[caluml]

Or even with formatting.

OrgName: Sprint DSL Network
OrgID: SDSL
Address: 500 N New York Ave
City: Winter Park
StateProv: FL
PostalCode: 32789
Country: US

NetRange: 69.68.0.0 - 69.69.255.255
CIDR: 69.68.0.0/15
NetName: SDSL-NET5-03
NetHandle: NET-69-68-0-0-1
Parent: NET-69-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: DNS1.UTELFLA.COM
NameServer: DNS2.UTELFLA.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-08-05
Updated: 2003-12-02

Doesn't respond to ping though.
I wonder who on Slashdot has the lowest publically accessible IP a

Mine is the best:

[Hosiah]

It's got an ordered royal flush, it's prime, and the bitmap is a fire-breathing dragon, Japanese style. It can also be broken into three groups of digits, such that group z=group(x**2)*(group(y**2). It is also a sequence found naturally within the first thousand digits of pi.

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. OK, I'm lying. The site's still Slashdotted. But really, what's the difference?

"Your computer is broadcasting your IP address"

[adnonsense]

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".

Bah...

[aj50]

My ISPs proxy scored more than I did :(

Keep the slashdotting alive!

[stinerman]

They moved the script here.

Don't let them try and escape us!!!

Unaware of proxy...

[pe1chl]

Like so many "your IP address is..." pages it gives me the outgoing IP address of my provider's proxy server, even though that proxy inserts an "X-Forwarded-for" header.

Another great fun game

[LodCrappo]

I would like to annouce the Super Magic Fun Rate Your Bank Account Number game.

Please email me your complete checking account number and PIN, and I'll give you a really fun rating to compare how special your account was compared to all the other ones I've collected. Who knows, you could be the winner!!

Lowest!

[penguinboy]

Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #14727 of the 14727 IP's spotted so far.

I'm insulted!

oblig

[omahajim]

In Korea, only old people's IP addresses are interesting.

Upload an image ... humph!

[taniwha]

My image looks like a sexual act that's illegal in some countries and they want me to upload a picture that is similar .... I spy a US DoJ trap ...

The +1 for living in the G8 is pretty bogus too (or is it a clue?)

My IP adress is the worst in the world?

[zz99]

Your IP is 212.32.155.xxx which resolves to host: xxx
* 155 is the maximum break in snooker if you have a free ball (+1)
* IP as a bitmap
Which does not look much like anything. think it does? (0)
* Your IP address as a poker hand:
Six of Hearts
Three of Spades
Three of Spades
Queen of Clubs
Three of Hearts
You cheat! You have 2 identical cards! (-2)
* IP address as a colour (0)
Your IP address has scored: -1.
This is ranked #26

Loved it! Check out my

[HishamMuhammad]

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

This means by the end of the year, my IP score will be one point higher! ;-)

My obligatory score post -- ranked 24/35177

[pro-mpd]

128.211.xxx.210

Score: 43
Your IP is 128.211.xxx.210 which resolves to host: pal-179-210.itap.purdue.edu.

(okay, okay... it's a DHCP address... have fun h4xxing the next sucker who gets this address!!)

* 211 is prime (+12)
* xxx is prime (+10)
* IP as a bitmap

dotdotdotdotdotdot
dotdotdotdotdotdot
dotdot

10th lowest

[DJ Rubbie]

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 =/

Re:Digg...

[Southpaw018]

I donno, but it seems likely (though not copy-paste). Lately, because of Fark's more community based nature on story submission, it's beaten /. to the punch on a whole bunch of stuff.

If only

[megacia]

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

Re:If only

[cashman73]

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

You get +5 for World Cup

[lzmbr]

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

Re:Nothing interesting about your IP

[Daytona955i]

I know it was probably meant as a joke but that is not a valid IP address so it's not really all that funny.

Re:Nothing interesting about your IP

[bcmm]

It makes me wonder... Why are IPv4 addresses expressed in decimal? If they were written in hexadecimal, no random aa.bb.cc.dd string would be invalid, i.e. the address space would fit neatly into the available numbers.

Re:It's dead, jim.

[crmartin]

Um, you're dead too.