IP-HOSTNAME Conversion Problem

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sam_cit@yahoo.co.in - 28 Mar 2006 14:10 GMT

Hi,

I found many utilities in the web or rather the internet to resolve ip
address and host names , i took this example

host name : mp3.box.sk whose IP was resolved to be 69.31.81.51

now i took the same ip and tried to resolve the host name, for my
surprise i found that to be
colo-69-31-81-51.pilosoft.com which is not mp3.box.sk for sure, can
anyone explain as to why this problem is caused?

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 28 Mar 2006 14:34 GMT

> now i took the same ip and tried to resolve the host name, for my
> surprise i found that to be
> colo-69-31-81-51.pilosoft.com which is not mp3.box.sk for sure, can
> anyone explain as to why this problem is caused?

If you need to have proper rDNS, you need to talk to your provider.

/Thomas

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Oliver Wong - 28 Mar 2006 19:32 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> colo-69-31-81-51.pilosoft.com which is not mp3.box.sk for sure, can
> anyone explain as to why this problem is caused?

There isn't a one to one mapping from host names to IP. I have two
websites with two different domain names, but they're hosted on the same
server, and so resolve to the same IP.

- Oliver

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