I think i learned a lot today:

- somebody at CPE002078c78d8d-CM000e5c22a7be.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com visited 
my website (i guess he is not running a website from that url  :-)
- my JoomlaStat Tool is giving confusing information. During resolving it shows 
lines like this:
> > > > 196.41.37.211  -->  unknown  -->  196.41.37.211
which, i asumed, ment it could not resolve 196.41.37.211. 

Well, that is not the case. it happily resolves those addresses. (well, a lot 
of them) For example, it does resolve customers.busnet.net, which is the 
address busnet customers go out with. I had to look into a different place to 
see that. 

(combine this with a tiny upgrade on 1 of the sites, which greatly enhanced the 
quality of the lookup, and the fact that i am filtering out my own traffic on 
another site, the confusion was complete)

For all Joomla-lovers, the Component is highly recommended, btw.

thanks for the replys.



On Monday 31 July 2006 15:21, Reinier wrote:
> 
> same here (i also dont understand everything ;-)
> 
> if rDNS is the same as the possibility to do a NSLookup, then yes.
> 
> As far as I know, that is quite common (look at the joomlastats.org site, 
> they only have 7% unknown traffic)
> 
> I remember that my personal router in the netherlands used to be resolvable, 
> sometimes you might see these comical names in your logs: 
> 22k43h2938749832ho.suburb.losangeles.verizon.com. That is somebodies ADSL 
> modem probably.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday 31 July 2006 15:02, Richard Mikisa wrote:
> > Not sure I fully understand everything you are saying but are you
> > requesting for rDNS for all IPs?
> > 
> > On 7/31/06, Reinier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > tldlookup does lookup the top level domain, so if an NSlookup for an IP 
> > > returns bushnet.co.ug it will recognize the IP as a ugandan one. For 
> > > bushnet.net, it will assign it to the .net cloud, which is non-locatable 
> > > geographically.
> > >
> > > so the list in the first email is IP's that are not resolvable using 
> > > NSLookup. (And yes, for me at least, the nslookup to the bushnet IP  
> > > 41.220.0.121 fails, note that i am in their network, so my config is a 
> > > bit different than from a website on the web)
> > >
> > > As McTim (your mail just came in, thanks) states, even if you have a .net 
> > > .com or .org top level domain, its still unclear where the source network 
> > > is located (again, like bushnet.net)
> > >
> > > joomlastats (the tool i use) then uses the RIPE whois function. I took a 
> > > quick look at that website, and here i again get lost and require some 
> > > proper knowledge. Can you shed some light as to how that works? Do they 
> > > use the actual address of the owner of the domain?
> > >
> > > In the meantime, I (and i guess with me, some others) would appreciate if 
> > > all of you who manage routers/proxy servers would make these NSLookupable 
> > > (is that still english, like googling?)
> > >
> > > rgds,
> > >
> > > reinier
> > >
> > > PS Post about how 'The Tool' is doing it:
> > > http://www.joomlastats.org/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,/func,view/catid,8/id,2307/#2307
> > >
> > > RIPE website
> > > http://www.ripe.net/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Monday 31 July 2006 13:02, Reinier wrote:
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > i'm trying to follow the current discussion, very very technical stuff. 
> > > > I have a question that might be related.
> > > >
> > > > I have some software that monitors the usage of my websites. The 
> > > > software does a tldlookup, in order to locate the source of the 
> > > > requests. If it finds the location, it can show nice graphics of where 
> > > > the webtraffic is coming from in the world.
> > > >
> > > > some of the statistics look like:
> > > >
> > > > 81.199.17.218  -->  unknown  -->  81.199.17.218
> > > > 41.220.0.121  -->  unknown  -->  41.220.0.121
> > > > 193.108.254.83  -->  unknown  -->  193.108.254.83
> > > > 41.220.0.121  -->  unknown  -->  41.220.0.121
> > > > 81.199.17.194  -->  unknown  -->  81.199.17.194
> > > > 195.229.89.29  -->  unknown  -->  195.229.89.29
> > > > 65.222.185.75  -->  unknown  -->  65.222.185.75
> > > > 81.199.17.182  -->  unknown  -->  81.199.17.182
> > > > 81.199.18.102  -->  unknown  -->  81.199.18.102
> > > > 204.10.227.2  -->  unknown  -->  204.10.227.2
> > > > 81.80.243.234  -->  unknown  -->  81.80.243.234
> > > > 196.25.34.23  -->  unknown  -->  196.25.34.23
> > > > 65.160.238.180  -->  unknown  -->  65.160.238.180
> > > > 196.41.37.211  -->  unknown  -->  196.41.37.211
> > > > 204.246.129.196  -->  unknown  -->  204.246.129.196
> > > > 193.108.254.83  -->  unknown  -->  193.108.254.83
> > > > 82.206.143.43  -->  unknown  -->  82.206.143.43
> > > > 41.220.0.121  -->  unknown  -->  41.220.0.121
> > > > 193.108.254.83  -->  unknown  -->  193.108.254.83
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I notice that bushnet is there, unresolved, and maybe some other 
> > > > ugandan sources as well. Who would be the people to enable the 
> > > > succesfull tldlookup? Is that the owner of the domains? The 
> > > > configurator of the respective proxy-server?
> > > >
> > > > These stats are very usefull for webmasters. For a sample, take a look 
> > > > at http://www.joomlastats.org/
> > > >
> > > > rgds,
> > > > reinier
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