On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:47, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Saturday 31 January 2004 1:09 pm, Ken Schneider wrote: <SNIP> I did understand that there's in general no connection at all between MAC addresses and hostnames. But there can be in particular cases, as the following test shows.
I found my outbound IP address by querying my router control program (there are other, simpler ways to do that, I suppose). Then, using your helpful hint, I did:
pwa@suillus:~> host 24.91.182.73 73.182.91.24.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer h002078d6b671.ne.client2.attbi.com.
And indeed:
-- my MAC address is 002078d6b671 -- pinging the attbi address above works
An interesting sidelight on all this is that my "secret" stable hostname (the one Comcast doesn't seem to want me to know about) is in an attbi domain, not a Comcast domain. So it may not last forever.
I have been following this thread with great interest! I gather that you are streaming comcast(?) but how does a linux user *receive* the stream? ...CH
Paul Abrahams