-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:03:46PM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Max Power wrote: > > My problem is to know the ISP [e.g. GATEWAY = Vodafone, Telecom or AT&T] > > before starting browsing or any remote connection... > > Checking the hostname of an RFC1918 address will nearly never provide > you with an ISP's name, even if you do it on a residential-gateway > device provided by them.
I think the OP's address was the external address, which very probably *isn't* an RFC1918 (unless his provider puts all of their customers behind a giant NAT: at least on my part of the world this is highly atypical). Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlpMkIgACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaYfwCaA2ceXxFjm2efv6hR25DBYu60 hz0An2YCF5YDOeSY9fZ4duxQ97w57ESJ =WCgo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
