Subj : Web access, false BBS ID
To   : Michel Samson
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Nov 03 2004 10:24 am

MS>> This was only meant as an alternative to accomodate BBSers who must
MS>> connect using ~SSH~ then ~TelNet~ *SEPARATELY*, for some reason...

AB>> What reason?  Describe a scenario in which this makes sense.

MS> Lets start with the BBS system from where i'm posting
MS> right now.  I got "69.75.117.170" when i fed `NSLookUp'
MS> with "BBSNets.COM" and then it led to two very distinct
MS> results when i used `TraceRt'...  I have access to two
MS> different ~ISP~s at home so i made this test with both
MS> and here's what i found:  my 128 Kbps ~DSL~ feed gives
MS> two consistent strings which show up as "bellnexia.net"
MS> and "inet.qwest.net" in the listing;  with my DialUp
MS> account there were three of these, somehwere in the
MS> listing i got "sogetel.net", "vtl.net" and "level3.net".
MS> In both cases, it began with a Domain Name i could
MS> associate with the ~ISP~ i used to ~TelNet~ and it ended
MS> with what i believe to be the Domain Name of the ~ISP~
MS> which gives access the remote BBS system.  Forget about
MS> the exact ~IP~s and focus on paterns which can be
MS> recognized time after time after time when the user
MS> connects to the ~TelNettable~ BBS via his ~ISP~.

unreliable as rDNS (reverse dns) isn't required and is not set up by all isps
or even set up properly by all isps... decent idea, though... now, IPv6 is a
lot different and might fit something like this better...

)\/(ark
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