Esat Hostnames

hmmm

Hilarious. If you're a residential customer on Esat's Business DSL service and value your privacy, you might want to make sure you're not leaving your name splashed all over logs.

Look up your hostname here
http://www.ipmonster.com/tools/hostname.php

eth0_

But....they don't appear to have reverse DNS set up, i've used the esat business DSL in two places and it never came up with a hostname, only an IP.

Anyway, hostnames on DSL is NOTHING unique. In fact, friends in Canada with DSL and cable, their providers broadcast their hostname rather than IP....so surely what Esat are doing is a *good* thing?

hmmm

You're not getting the point

Try addresses around 193.120.102.200 and up in the ipmonster lookup I posted.

There's nothing wrong with having a hostname, the issue is that for quite a few residential customers on the "business"service their hostname is of a form firstnamelastname-adsl.adsl.esat.net

- and this is what will appear in the weblogs of sites you visit. Who needs cookies when I can get your name.

eth0_

Originally posted by hmmm

There's nothing wrong with having a hostname, the issue is that for quite a few residential customers on the "business"service their hostname is of a form firstnamelastname-adsl.adsl.esat.net

- and this is what will appear in the weblogs of sites you visit. Who needs cookies when I can get your name.

Well i'm sure most people wouldn't really be all that bothered, but you should be able to have your hostname changed easily.

BArra

they have this in the uk as well, where Nildram have ip's where u can specify what u want to put in there, so if u have a nickname u can have...

name@nickname.gotadsl.co.uk

use ipmonster to check this ip and u can see 213.208.111.126


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eth0_

I would totally abuse that. Offensive hostnames, excellent.