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Old 19-05-2006, 17:08   #1
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Question Privacy Concerns
I am bit concerned about privacy when doing a lookup for an NTL IP address.

For example...

IP address: 82.x.xx.xxx
Host name: cpcX-TOWNX-X-X-custXXX.CITY.cable.ntl.com

By my understanding, it says which town and city you are from. Does it also tell which street connection you are on also?
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Old 19-05-2006, 17:09   #2
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Re: Privacy Concerns
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I am bit concerned about privacy when doing a lookup for an NTL IP address.

For example...

IP address: 82.x.xx.xxx
Host name: cpcX-TOWNX-X-X-custXXX.CITY.cable.ntl.com

By my understanding, it says which town and city you are from. Does it also tell which street connection you are on also?
Nope, nor does it necessarily say town and city, those details are just the location of the router at ntl and the location of the server that customer takes their IP address from.

The actual format is cpcX-ubrX-cardX-downstreamX-nearesthubsite.cable.ntl.com

Most don't even have the card and downstream information anymore now that a large block of IPs are bundled together on the routers, and just have 0 where the card and downstream number were.
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Old 20-05-2006, 07:56   #3
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Re: Privacy Concerns
My hubsite isn't Nottingham
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Old 20-05-2006, 08:03   #4
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Re: Privacy Concerns
Yes it is, Grimsby uses the Nottingham routers
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Re: Privacy Concerns
Hmmz so what does the 'nott' in nott-grim-ubr-1.inet.ntl.com mean?

I should clarify I was referring to an IP hub, probably should have called it a POP site, rather than an HFC hubsite. You don't have any way of knowing what your HFC hubsite is as it doesn't even necessarily have a uBR in it.

However in the context of the OP question all is irrelevant so I'll put what you said down to attempted points scoring
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Re: Privacy Concerns
Yes, why of course it was

cpc4-grim2-0-0-custxxx.nott.cable.ntl.com is the format.

You posted cpcX-ubrX-cardX-downstreamX-nearesthubsite.cable.ntl.com.

To reiterate, in relation to me, its not my hubsite but the core PoP
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