Wildwusel Premium Member join:2001-12-04 Richardson, TX |
Domain questionCould someone explain why my Domain shows up as hsd1.wa.comcast.net, as opposed to tx? Thanks in advance. |
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EpikosSurpass the Usual or Ordinary Premium Member join:2003-07-27 Vancouver, WA |
Epikos
Premium Member
2005-Jun-12 6:59 pm
My first guess is it's just a fluke. Your modem probably pulled in IP that was allocated to a WA CMTS pool. How this happened, I dunno. I imagine they're a regional thing, so I don't know how it happened. but thats the only thing I can think of that would cause your rdns lookup to pull wa.comcast.net
Maybe someone with more experience will have some more input?
-Shapeless |
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Daemon Premium Member join:2003-06-29 Washington, DC |
to Wildwusel
if comcast recently adjusted which IPs belong to which regions one of two things might be true:
1) comcast has not updated the PTR records yet, so it's still marked as a WA IP 2) the PTR record change hasn't propogated throughout the internet, so some servers still show it as a WA IP. |
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to Wildwusel
Something also could be wrong with your account and the modem is getting it's IP from the wrong DHCP server |
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Wildwusel Premium Member join:2001-12-04 Richardson, TX |
Wildwusel
Premium Member
2005-Jun-12 10:44 pm
I guess. Im wondering wheatear I need to call Comcast, or just leave well enough alone
.? As a rule, I dont contact tech support unless its really critical. |
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It doesn't make that big a difference in the grand scheme of things, so you are probably best off leaving it alone.
Besides, you'd probably confuse the hell out of a Tier 1 CSR |
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Daemon Premium Member join:2003-06-29 Washington, DC |
to Wildwusel
agreed. Who knows what tech support might break while trying to fix it. |
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NormanSI gave her time to steal my mind away MVM join:2001-02-14 San Jose, CA TP-Link TD-8616 Asus RT-AC66U B1 Netgear FR114P
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to Wildwusel
said by Wildwusel:Could someone explain why my Domain shows up as hsd1.wa.comcast.net, as opposed to tx? Thanks in advance. Technically speaking, your domain name is showing up as "comcast.net". "Hsd1.wa.comcast.net" is just a part of the ptr record for your public IP address. It appears to be something like SBC's Redback routers. Here is my "domain name"; it identifies a Redback "router", which I believe is also an aggregator: dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net. It is just the common part of the ptr record for your connection; the user specific part has been dropped. To see the whole ptr record, or DNS name, you need to run your IP address through an rDNS lookup. The Sam Spade DNS lookup says: 06/12/05 23:44:39 dns 64.161.28.174 nslookup 64.161.28.174 Canonical name: adsl-64-161-28-174.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net Addresses: 64.161.28.174
You have no control over that, it is set by the Comcast network administrators. |
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QumahlinNever Enough Time MVM join:2001-10-05 united state |
to tiggntaz1
said by tiggntaz1:Something also could be wrong with your account and the modem is getting it's IP from the wrong DHCP server Not possible. |
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Wildwusel Premium Member join:2001-12-04 Richardson, TX |
Thanks for all the feedback. Much appreciated. As usual, this is a great forum for receiving information & assistance. |
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