Off you go… into the purple yonder!

So you’re happily developing a rails app, and for whatever reason need to restart your devel server.
And then you get this (paths removed to improve readability):

$ script/server
=> Booting Mongrel (use ’script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Starting [...]

$ host ftp.us.debian.org.
ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.30.2.36
ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.238.52
ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.236.52
ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225

$ telnet ftp.us.debian.org 80
Trying 35.9.37.225…
Connected to ftp.us.debian.org.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 2949
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:36:34 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0

Connection closed by foreign host.

Excuse me?

$ whois 35.9.37.225
Merit Network Inc. MICH-1 (NET-35-0-0-0-1)
[...]

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