-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 02 Jan 2018 at 11:15:16 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:03:46PM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: >> > 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 issue here is that he has some sort of unique setup in >> which this name resolution actually DOES provide meaningful information, >> much to the surprise of everyone else on the mailing list. >> >> Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that this is atypical, so he doesn't >> know enough to report it to us as part of his question. >> >> Also unfortunately, we don't know what he's actually DOING with this >> name resolution information, so we can't help him. >> >> Most particularly, we don't know what the various ISP choices are that >> he has, what the gateways of those ISPs are, what the name resolutions >> of those gateways of those ISPs are, or what he wants to do in each of >> the known, possible cases that he may encounter. >> >> THAT is the kind of information we would need in order to help him. > > I can only assume that the OP [...]
That's the point :) that's all any of us can do. At the moment, he's already been told how to get "ip" to resolve hostnames (in his other thread -- "ip -r route"), seems he didn't like that answer; and made a new one. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJaTNI/AAoJEI4R3fMSeaKBny0IAJc5WMppuzfz84P1n+p83SRY HrgPbe+WFT1pldTJ6LJ8tI05vfXS/qGwYn2HXHBZ8ow8fNB34wTHQa4kMOcBqv2q XKS8G6vsm2708CvK/Ho33E8FUgRadjW1W6D0qQRq/sdaOhFMJl3Grtxyb/pPSZGe U8nkY/fIm925B22UI/DNmh8nDevtP50nZKLJd8QC86JpNOjIsT1BFUqCA/h6E+2z WDU1fUxkvjqJ1P9kLhgcwNKhHSqa/VEw2dvusbJFnaLKkRtqryP0iURPNh2MX1ay YnevBbvlyqsnpirQUiVXaJZUPK+90mfIzs61YIRbHMXG6bbK0rrePVn9kxCeOTw= =NXZv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
