Comcast DNS/POP performance question

[josephc at etards.net (josephc at etards.net)]

I'm not really sure WHY you would want that info. It's all assigned via 
DHCP and could change at a given moment. It's possible in the future your 
IP could be a on a completely different subnet, making the gateway address 
you were using before unreachable.

DNS servers too are assigned via DHCP so there is no need to manually 
enter them.

-joe

On 2 Jul 2003, Thomas Lopolito wrote:

> I've called and asked for their Primary and Secondary DNS server IP
> addresses as well as the gateway IP and they refused to give them to me.
> They gave me Windows instructions but when I informed them I was using
> linux, I was told I'm on my own. I tried to explain that was fine with
> me; just tell me the addresses, but they couldn't get past the Windows
> issue. I think the answer is that they really don't know and I'm not
> sure how far up the food chain you have to go to get the info. I stopped
> trying after the second supervisor.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 00:20, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> > Resending because I used 'x' instead 'n' for the ips below and the 
> > mailing list software thought it was obscene content!  ;-)
> > 
> > Since Comcast uses a single hostname for their POP server, are they 
> > doing a DNS trick to route regional traffic to different IP addresses 
> > for multiple POP servers?  e.g.  Boston's pop.comcast.net resolves to 
> > nnn.nnn.nnn.1 and California's resolves to nnn.nnn.nnn.2, etc... Or are 
> > they really using a simple powerful POP server to handle all the traffic 
> > for comcast.net?  I ask this because if they are doing a DNS trick and 
> > you don't use their DNS servers, performance can suffer.  Anyone know 
> > the facts?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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