Technical note:    10009
  Created:           06/08/95 by Trip
  Last modified:     07/10/95 by Brian
  Product:           Netscape Navigator

Anytime the Netscape Navigator tries to go to "home.netscape.com"
(either when you first launch it, or when you give it a URL containing
that address), it actually secretly tries to connect to
"homeN.netscape.com", where N is a randomly-chosen number from 1 to
16. The "home1", "home2", ... "home16" servers we have here are all
different computers that access the same document tree, so it doesn't
matter which one of them services your request.  This is to better
balance the load on our servers, which currently service a total of 5
to 7 million hits daily.

So if you've been monitoring packets on your network and you see
connections going out to "home4.netscape.com", now you know why.