Why does the Navigator try to connect to "home4.netscape.com"?

Whenever 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", this is why.