[AusNOG] iinet secret SA gateway - reg. cust. with iinet GW 203.217.8.255 is in Tas ?

[Mark Smith]

It's likely that their DNS PTR records are out of date for their network.
Fairly common issue.


On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 12:58, Go Group - GEO Gurus <gogroup.au at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> G'Day Guys
>
> I'm a newbie here so hope !'m ! breaking any rules posting about a LAN ?
>
> I was checking a regional SA iinet DHCP set static IP config.& noticed
that the GW is 203.217.8.255 in Tasmania.
>
> They are iinet customer 4 15+ years & have 9 static IPs
>
> If I tracert 203-217-8-bcast.perm.iinet.net.au ( 203.217.8.255 ) the 1st
few hops r prefix 'adl-' so IT seems that having a state prefix is
important at iiNET as far as host naming conventions go.
>
> Customer has a photo & screen shot of the router they had setup approx.
10 years ago & GW ( again DHCP set ) from this setup is a host with the
prefix 'adl-'
>
> iinet bus. support are saying ' No Problem ' to fix & will not provide a
Gateway IP 4 SA customers, but will provide DNS server IPs
>
> I was part of a team that managed the most popular website in the
southern hemisphere & the largest windows server / vmware network in the
southern hemisphere so I know about vmotion etc. & why we need to keep
secrets but why does iinet have a secret SA gateway !!!
>
> Any1 else in SA who has an iinet customer & can check their routers GW IP
?
>
> TIA
>
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