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Ollie Saunders
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lol what?! how?!

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C:\Documents and Settings\ole>ping www.somesite.com

Pinging www.somesite.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
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Post by Benjamin »

You can ping yourself.
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

yeah but this is somebody's domain
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The DNS is mapped to go to loopback. Perfectly acceptable and useful.
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feyd wrote:The DNS is mapped to go to loopback. Perfectly acceptable and useful.
Yeah I thought as much, bit random to buy a domain just for that though. :lol:
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