Re: [Air-L] on the Wayback Machine (was public/private [part 1 of 2])

I have not read the full thread so please forgive me if I am repeating the same information.

A web crawler will find you, that's the point. There are a finite number of IP addresses, 4,294,967,296 (232) , these are what get resolved from a URL.

Web crawlers don't typically have much luck crawling by IP address. Name-based virtual hosting @ the level of the web server tends to make it less than adequate. Best practice for virtualhosting is to make a hit directly to an IP address (rather than a name) return... nothing. --e