RE: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
Looks like it's hosted by Akamai, which might explain why you can't get an answer from the folks running the course. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How to determine a host's IP range Do

RE: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas Mullins
an impasse. Shane -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to determine a host's IP range Looks like it's hosted by Akamai, which might explain why you can't get

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Thomas Mullins tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us wrote:        dig +short txt_netblocks.pearsoncmg.com         There were no results returned. Where did txt_netblocks.pearsoncmg.com come from? That doesn't appear to be an existent domain name. It's even questionable

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Richard Stovall
to determine a host's IP range Looks like it's hosted by Akamai, which might explain why you can't get an answer from the folks running the course. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How

RE: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas Mullins
Our web filter is a Barracuda, and does not have an option for the domain name. Shane -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How to determine a host's IP range I don't know

RE: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas Mullins
...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How to determine a host's IP range On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Thomas Mullins tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us wrote:        dig +short txt_netblocks.pearsoncmg.com         There were no results returned

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know about other firewalls, but recent SonicWalls allow you to create network objects based on FQDN and then use those objects in your rules. How does that cope with a CDN which might generate different IP

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Thomas Mullins tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us wrote: dig +noall +ans ANY media.pearsoncmg.com. @ns.pearsoncmg.com. I am going to read and learn how to use dig. The two important parts were: * The ANY directive, which tells dig to query for any known DNS records.

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Richard Stovall
On my SonicWall, if a create a rule for media.pearsoncmg.com, I can write rules which allow or deny access no matter the underlying ip. Here's the definition SonicWall uses to describe ther FQDN network object. FQDN Address Objects are resolved using the DNS servers configured on the SonicWALL in

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Richard Stovall
That should have been ...if I create a network object for media.pearsoncmg.com... On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: On my SonicWall, if a create a rule for media.pearsoncmg.com, I can write rules which allow or deny access no matter the underlying ip.

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Bill Humphries
what about using this as a solution: http://www.akamai.com/html/misc/akamai_client/netsession_interface_faq.html Richard Stovall wrote: That should have been ...if I create a network object for media.pearsoncmg.com... On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: On my SonicWall, if a create a rule for media.pearsoncmg.com, I can write rules which allow or deny access no matter the underlying ip. There's no intrinsic relationship between an IP address and a DNS name. From

RE: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
Subject: Re: How to determine a host's IP range On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: On my SonicWall, if a create a rule for media.pearsoncmg.com, I can write rules which allow or deny access no matter the underlying ip. There's no intrinsic relationship

Re: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: From their description, what that does is look up the name to IP address(es), and then uses that to drive the firewall rule. Which is useful, don't get me wrong, but if the CDN varies the IP address (as some of them

RE: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
Subject: Re: How to determine a host's IP range On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: From their description, what that does is look up the name to IP address(es), and then uses that to drive the firewall rule. Which is useful, don't get me wrong