(PM) Host name question?? Very Confused...

Joseph Covey (renoir@netsites.net)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:28:00 -0600

I have noticed that some providers using Portmasters will assign host names
to each port so that when a customer connects his IP resolves to something
like.....

pm2port15.provider.com

How is this done? Do I need to setup every IP with a name in DNS? Even for
dial-in users?
We are using PM2er models and running NT 4.0 servers.

Seperate Question----------------------

When I do a trace route from another provider to our service I get results
that are confusing me.....for example....

I dialin and connect to intellex.com
next, I open a dos window to do a tracert such as...
tracert 207.2.194.131 (which is a Pm2er on our service)
this is what I get..........
C:\WINDOWS>tracert 207.2.194.131

Tracing route to l-131.netsites.net [207.2.194.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 124 ms 121 ms 134 ms router.intellex.net [205.186.137.1]
3 167 ms 166 ms 164 ms border2-serial3-2.Dallas.mci.net
[204.70.116.49]
4 342 ms 493 ms 155 ms core1-fddi-1.Dallas.mci.net [204.70.114.33]
5 354 ms * 176 ms core2.Dallas.mci.net [204.70.4.69]
6 155 ms 182 ms 166 ms border7-fddi-0.Dallas.mci.net
[204.70.114.51]
7 169 ms * 178 ms 204.70.148.114
8 200 ms 216 ms 193 ms c0-ftsm.tlsa.ipa.net [207.2.196.10]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 450 ms 463 ms 432 ms l-131.netsites.net [207.2.194.131]

Trace complete.

Now, My question is.....What is and where is it getting the
l-131.netsites.net ????
This PM2er is named drawbridge2.netsites.net not l-131.netsites.net
I have the portmaster in DNS as
drawbridge2 a 207.2.194.131
with the PTR also.

The same thing happens when I do a tracert to my mail server
In DNS it is mail.netsites.net
but a tracert comes back and says l-147.netsites.net

Anyway, where is it getting the l-xxx.netsites.net from ??

Thanks in advance.....

Joseph Covey
Netsites Tech Support
renoir@netsites.net

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