C:\>nslookup
Default Server:
Address:  192.168.0.1

> 66.235.139.18
Server:
Address:  192.168.0.1

Name:    *.112.2o7.net
Address:  66.235.139.18

>

When I put http://2o7.net in the address bar of a browser, I was taken to a Adobe Marketing Cloud privacy web page, which states:

The Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions enable our business customers to personalize and improve the performance of their websites, apps, and social networking pages. These companies use Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions to collect and analyze information, such as clicks made by visitors on their websites, apps, and social networking pages. The solutions also allow the companies to provide you with more relevant messages within their emails, text messages, and other online and offline marketing campaigns. In general, companies use Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions when they want to better understand and improve their online resources and marketing.

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As I posted there, I would like to point out that he never claimed to have invented the Internet (see the Snopes article "Internet of Lies"). For a much fuller discussion of the topic and some history on the Internet’s development and Gore’s role in supporting advanced networking initiatives, I would recommend “ Al Gore and the Creation of the Internet”

His early vision of its potential and his support for funding of advanced networking activities was important. Vint Cerf, who has, I think appropriately, been dubbed the “father of the Internet” for his technical contributions, along with Bob Kahn, in designing the Internet Protocol, has credited Gore’s early support for advanced networking efforts (see "Vint Cerf responded to MSNBC").

I see the same tactic of taking an opponent’s statements out of context being widely used in the current campaign by both parties. Unfortunately, I suspect many Americans will make up their minds based on what they see in political ads that are designed to mislead them. The tactic used so successfully against Gore still works.

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You can check on whether an IP address has been associated with attacks on other systems at DShield or myNetWatchman by performing an IP lookup.

You can also obtain information on the "reputation" for a site at Barracuda Central by performing a lookup on either an IP address or a domain name. Barracuda Networks sells widely used spam firewall devices, so a poor reputation listing at Barracuda Central may lead to email from an IP address listed there, or with a domain name in the body of email messages being found there, being blocked by those using Barracuda Networks security devices.

Another reputation site is TrustedSource. You can lookup an IP address there and see a graph of activity associated with that site. If you see red bars on the graph, those represent malicious activity associated with the IP address on the days for which those bars appear.

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Or perhaps you own example.com. The cybersquatter may purchase example.net, if it is available. Someone seeing example.net in an email may think the domain belongs to your company and visit a site that might have nothing but ads, perhaps even risque ones, or the site might try to infect visitors with adware/spyware, which might harm your company's reputation, even though you don't own the domain name and have no control over the site.

CitizenHawk helps you locate potential cybersquatter sites for your domain name.

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The options specified above are as follows:

-p <port ranges>
       This option specifies what ports you want to query.

-P0    Do  not  try  and  ping hosts at all before scanning them.  This
       allows the scanning of  networks  that  don't allow  ICMP  echo
       requests  (or  responses) through their firewall. 

-sT    TCP connect() scan: This is the most basic form of TCP scanning.
       The connect() system call provided by your operating  system  is
       used  to  open  a  connection  to  every interesting port on the
       machine. If the port is listening, connect() will succeed,
       otherwise  the  port  isn't reachable. One strong advantage to this
       technique is that you don/t need  any  special  privileges.  Any
       user on most UNIX boxes is free to use this call.

For a list of other ports used by Oracle, you can check Which TCP/UDP port or ports does 'oracle' use?

References:

1. Which TCP/UDP port or ports does 'oracle' use?
   SecureTrust TCP/UDP Port Search Lookup Tool

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RFC's document the protcols on the Internet. The precursor to today's Internet was the ARPANET, which was developed for the United States Department of Defense. The first RFCs were published in 1969 for the ARPANET. At first researchers distributed hard copies of the RFCs among themselves, but in December of 1969 they began distributing them using the ARPANET itself.

References:

1. April 7, 1969: Birth of That Thing We Call the Internet
   By Tony Long
   Wired News
2. Request for Comments
   Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
3. ARPANET
   Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. RFC 1 Title: Host Software
   By Steve Crocker
   IETF Tools

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AOL's user base has been dwindling as users move to broadband services. Those that don't have access to broadband services or don't want to pay for broadband services are also likely to choose cheaper dial-up services rather than pay a premium price for AOL's ad-saturated dial-up service.

References:

1. AOL to slash 5,000 jobs
   CNNMoney.com
   August 3, 2006
2. AOL Tells Broadband Customers to Find New ISP
   MoonPoint Support
   November 12, 2004

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