RCN headache, on day 1

[dubrowin at bbn.com (Sheldon Dubrowin)]

Well, DNS works fine, but that hostname is as dynamic as my IP.  If my IP changes, so does that hostname.  I decided to go with TZO, it has a 30 day trial (no fee), and for $25 for this year, it isn't all that bad.  It was easy to setup and it appears to work OK.  

Something interesting that I noted, I did a traceroute and it appears my first 3 hops are 10.x.x.x addresses.  I have a real IP, and my default router from DHCP is a real IP, but the routers I'm going through have net 10 addresses.  I've heard of using net 10 for the loopback addresses of routers, but not usually in the backbone of a large ISP.  So far, I haven't had any warm and fuzzys from RCN/Erols/who ever else they bought.  

I'm starting to regret having switched.  If I was only using the cable access, like a "normal" user I don't think it would bother me, but since I am running a web server that people actually use once in a while, it's a little bothersome.

	Shel

On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 06:54:46AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I can ping your machine by your host name, so DNS seems to be working. 
> Sheldon Dubrowin wrote:
> > I got my service this afternoon.
> > 
> > eth0      Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:04:93:BF:3C
> >           inet addr:209.6.184.199
> > 
> > Hostname: 209-6-184-199.c3-0.wth-ubr1.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com
> > 
> > Maybe this will get fixed tomorrow (the 24 hours), lets hope.
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
> 
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