Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:54:22 -0500 From: Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> To: Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: host & dig Message-ID: <4BC0911E.2090703@earthlink.net>
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A previous question to the List on how to get an IP address from a host speicific URL yielded the helpful responses of "host" and "dig." These (seemed to) work fine. Well, just now I got a chance to try it out on a tiny server I have at someone else's house, and on another network. I used telnet to connect to 68.204.xxx.xxx it tells me I've connected to xxx.xxx.204.68.cfl.res.rr.com. (backwards, right?), then I log in. After user/pass entry, it says connected from "user-yyyyyyy.cab" (replaced seemingly random name with "yyyyyyy" in case it's not transient) My external IP here is 24.110.nnn.nnn The issue: When I use either "host" or "dig" to give me the IP address from "user-yyyyyyy.cab", they tell me: 208.68.zzz.zzz (Ping gives the same.) So, I'm still at a loss, I think, to know the originating IP. Should a firewall rule blocking 208.68.zzz.zzz actually operate against 24.110.nnn.nnn? I'd STILL like to know the true source IP to be able to connect back to it. TIA. Again, please respond directly to me (as well as to the List) because I'm not subscribed. Walter
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