Thanks for that information, because I can foresee in the future that I will want to get an old box and run a embedded pfsense instance on it. This information is obviously immensely helpful.
Thanks Paul On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, February 17, 2011 04:08:05 pm Paul Saenz wrote: >> That's a neat trick I didn't know about: whois 204.69.4.20 >> When I tried to navigat to that IP in my browser address, the >> connection timed out, so I stopped there and asked the question. > > If there's a rDNS entry you can also do: > > $ dig -x 204.69.4.20 > > which in this case returns: > > ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> -x 204.69.4.20 > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 20865 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;20.4.69.204.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > 4.69.204.in-addr.arpa. 900 IN SOA ns3.rcc.edu. admin.rccd.net. > 16 10800 3600 2592000 900 > > ;; Query time: 93 msec > ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) > ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 17 16:26:47 2011 > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 103 > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
