Aaaahhh... 
THAT makes sense :) 

I tried to recreate the 'scene', but I couldn't, and I thought I had
seen something wrong; Now that makes perfectly sense to me :) 

Thanks;
Wolfgang 

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 14:46 -0600, Burton Strauss wrote:
> Not quite ... Remember ntop sniffs other people's DNS queries and caches the
> responses...  (run dumpdnsCache or dumpgdbm on dnsCache.db).
> 
> Once it has the data, ntop can do the 'reverse' lookup.
> 
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> DynDNS does forward look-ups only.  The PTR resolution must be provided for
> by the address owner.  Typically a Broadband provider of some sort.  The way
> it works is that the resolver asks who owns the PTR record for the address
> given.  That is often an ISP or a large corporation.
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> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 11:21 -0600, Burton Strauss wrote:
> > There's nothing odd about it.  DynDNS type services EXIST to provide 
> > name resolution, of course ntop can resolve it!
> 
> You misunderstood me. I wrote about reverse-DNS-lookups, which is not so
> obvious to me. Ntop can only be in the knowledge of my IP-Address, not my A
> record. I'm talking about PTR records, that DYNDNS doesn't provide, I guess.
> 
> > -----Burton
> 
> Wolfgang
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:56 AM
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> > Subject: [Ntop-dev] How can ntop resolve DynDNS hosts?
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've found out, that ntop is able to resolve the dyndns record (via a 
> > reverse-DNS lookup(!)) of my laptop - how is this possible?
> > I've just had a quick glance at the source code, but didn't find 
> > anything
> -
> > I am really interested how this is done - so if somebody could give me 
> > a hint - I'd appreciate that!
> >
> > Thank you!
> > Wolfgang
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