portal.attheraces.tv

[#1]

Idly watching tcpdump (always a happy occupation for a sunny sunday afternoon) I notice that when I'm on this site,  there's tcp connections to portal.attheraces.tv ... just wondering what that's about, really

[#2]

It would appear community.plus.net which is 212.159.8.151 is getting returned as portal.attheraces.tv from a reverse dns ptr type thingy.
Yup.
PTR for  151.8.159.212.in-addr.arpa
returns
portal.attheraces.tv

[#3]

[quote="root"]a reverse dns ptr type thingy ah those thingys.
some sort of ongoing DNS twisted-knickerness situation then?

[#4]

Hmm... that's most strange.  PlusNet previously managed a vISP for attheraces and http://portal.attheraces.tv was previously where customers went to manage their account. (Just as PlusNet customers go to http://portal.plus.net).
Dodgy config somewhere then, or a reused IP address.  I've raised this as PUGIT Issue 356 nonetheless as it is incorrect.

[#5]

looks resolved now

[#6]

ns1.plus.net and ns2.plus.net give different answers!

[#7]

Looks like you're right. I'll get a problem raised on it.

151.8.159.212.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer community.plus.net.
bpullen@pvs-csctools:~$ host 212.159.8.151 ns1.plus.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.plus.net
Address: 212.159.11.150#53
Aliases:
151.8.159.212.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer community.plus.net.
bpullen@pvs-csctools:~$ host 212.159.8.151 ns2.plus.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns2.plus.net
Address: 212.159.13.150#53
Aliases:
151.8.159.212.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer portal.attheraces.tv.