Re: [SLE] Comcast and NAT

-----Original Message----- From: "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@acm.org> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:36:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [SLE] Comcast and NAT

I should have asked explicitly: given my MAC address, how do I determine the associated hostname? Can I ping it? Is there still a fixed associated hostname on Comcast? A Google search yielded posts that suggests Comcast might be changing their practices on that.

Hostnames are not associated with MAC addresses, they are associated with IP addresses. The first place to look is in your /etc/hosts file. If you have aregistered domain name you need to look at dyndns.org for name resolution. Ken