DNS Issues

[TheMegaIdiot]

Hello,

When using IRC servers I am told this ...

* Looking up chat.freenode.net
* Connecting to chat.freenode.net (213.232.93.3) port 8000...
* Connected. Now logging in...
* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Checking Ident
* *** Your forward and reverse DNS do not match, ignoring hostname

The host name of my IP used to be cpc2-hawk7-0-0-cust247.aztw.cable.virginmedia.com

But now it has changed to cpc2-hawk7-0-0-cust1015.aztw.cable.virginmedia.com

When you resolve the new host name it brings it back to 77.xxx.119.xxx which isn't my IP. My IP is 77.xxx.116.xxx.

Why is this happening?

[Kymmy]

Means the server itself couldn't resolve the hostname from the IP.. Have you tried another server in the same network?

It might cure itself (temp dns issue)

[TheMegaIdiot]

Means the server itself couldn't resolve the hostname from the IP.. Have you tried another server in the same network?

It might cure itself (temp dns issue)

I posted the IRC log to show how I became aware of this change.

Take a look at what else has changed, my host name has changed and no resolves back to another IP.