From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 11:42: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A582C37B417 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C921E987 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:41:56 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g02JfuB89777 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:41:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:41:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201021941.g02JfuB89777@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Modem Installation Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <000801c19287$660c31c0$76bc69ce@abinadi> <20020101215141.GG3117@raggedclown.net> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1009999938 44800 216.194.193.106 (2 Jan 2002 19:32:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "CS" == Cliff Sarginson writes: CS> A whois on softhome.net tells me.. CS> Domain Name: SOFTHOME.NET CS> Registrar: TUCOWS, INC. CS> Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net CS> Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org ---> Name Server: NS1.SOFTHOME.NET ---> Name Server: NS3.SOFTHOME.NET CS> Updated Date: 05-nov-2001 CS> ..... CS> And a lookup tells me... That tells you their authoritative name servers for softhome.net, not the name servers that any of their clients can use to query arbitrary host names. For all you know, the only host name it will resolve is softhome.net, but that's unlikely ;-) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message