Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 30 January 2004 11:25 pm, James Knott wrote:
While my address may change, my host name won't, as it's based on my mac address. So any host name look up will return the correct ip.
I remember knowing that I did have a fixed hostname related to my MAC address, but I don't remember how to figure out what it is. Comcast is very reluctant to provide technical information about anything other than the standard vanilla Windows connection. They won't even tell you what their nameservers are -- you have to figure it out for yourself. A couple of years ago, in the Roadrunner days, they did make that sort of information available.
By the way, I only knew about the nameservers because my router told me. For whatever it's worth, the nameservers I use on Comcast are:
63.240.76.19 204.127.198.19
I think they actually have a third one but I don't know what it is.
Use the host command to obtain the host name for an IP address. For example: $ host 63.240.76.19 19.76.240.63.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ns10.attbi.com. Do the same thing with your own IP to find your host name.