[Techtalk] Linux gateway and home net clients

Malcolm Tredinnick malcolm at commsecure.com.au
Tue May 20 13:05:00 EST 2003


On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:31:17PM -0400, Subba Rao wrote:
[...]
> I started the browser and tried to capture the traffic on with tcpdump and
> got the following information:
> 
> ==========================================
> 22:16:17.452888 10.10.10.50.1060 > myhost.homenet.cablespeed.com.domain: [udp sum ok]  20+ A? www.google.com. (32) (ttl 128, id 392, len 60)
> 
> 22:16:17.547958 myhost.homenet.cablespeed.com.domain > 10.10.10.50.1060:  20 q: A? www.google.com. 1/4/0 www.google.com. A 216.239.53.104 ns: google.com.[|domain] (DF) (ttl 64, id 0, len 148)
> ==========================================

All that says is that the name lookup worked. If
myhost.homenet.cablespeed.com is the hostname of your gateway, then
packets have not gone any further than that (I am guessing that
10.10.10.50 is your laptop's IP address -- knowing either of these
things would, of course, help).

Malcolm

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