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IP address and what they mean regarding location

  • 15-07-2005 5:55am
    #1
    Dr Cox's Ego
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭


    Not sure this is in the right part of "computers", please move if its not. I was wondering does "as1.blp.dublin" and "b-ras1.srl.dublin" and "as1.dbn.dublin" mean different parts of Dublin when it comes to using Eircom?


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  • #2
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    They're the exchanges that you connect to. You could be connected to any exchange in the country regardless of where you are yourself.


  • #3
    Dr Cox's Ego
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Dr Cox's Ego


    Yes but what does those letters mean in regard to the location of the exchange?


  • #4
    TimTim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭TimTim


    Dr Cox's Ego wrote:
    Not sure this is in the right part of "computers", please move if its not. I was wondering does "as1.blp.dublin" and "b-ras1.srl.dublin" and "as1.dbn.dublin" mean different parts of Dublin when it comes to using Eircom?

    I'd assume b-ras would be somesort of authentication server. Remote Access Server or something

    as1 *shrug*

    dbn/srl - I'd think are exchange codes

    And I'll leave you to figure out what dublin is :D


  • #5
    newgrange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 568 ✭✭✭newgrange


    srl=summerhill exchange?
    dbn=dolphin's barn?

    guessing


  • #6
    JNive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭JNive


    not neccesarily the exchange you are connected to, but the local exchange IP pool you are placed in, for example, all eircom users in cork, reverse resolve to the exact same dns lol, b-ras1.chf.eircom.net chf = churchfield, the big-ass exchange down here.


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  • #7
    AdMMM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭AdMMM


    Anyone have any idea why any Eircom broadband users in Waterford connect through Cork? Likewise all Carlow (Eircom at least) users connect through Limerick!


  • #8
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    It's all load balanced around the country. You can connect to any exchange - it doesn't matter where you are. And it makes no difference to your connection speeds either.


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