New (old) gateways or usertools which Gateway broken?

[#1]

Hi

I have a static IP and using the usertools gateway checker it reported:

      Which Gateway

      You are currently connected to gateway ptn-ag04.

      This is located in Telehouse North.

A Traceroute reported the PN gatway as:

      gi12-0-1-451.ptn-ag04.plus.net (84.93.253.80)  69.439 ms  69.422 ms  69.409 ms

AFAIK all the Telehouse gateways were decompression a few years ago...

Are new (maybe old) gateways being added or is the usertools which Gateway broken?

Regards

Richard

[#2]

I thought that the old gateways were still being used on static IP addresses. I assumed that this is the reason that the Plusnet profile still controls static addresses.

[#3]

Hey @RichardB, 

Looks like @Baldrick1 is on the right direction regarding this. 

Honestly, I couldn't give you a 100% guaranteed answer off the top of my head - but I'll have an ask about the office and see if anyone knows more about this.

Maybe one of the lovely people on here knows the answer? if so, please do shout up. 

Thanks,

MoR

[#4]

I had a static IP before the old "ag" gateways were decommissioned and have not seen an old "ag" gateway for the last few years only "bng" gateways.
@bobpullen advised that the ag gateways were being decommissioned in the IPV6 subboard. Link below...
https://community.plus.net/t5/IPv6-Trial/PSA-AG-Gateway-decommissioning/td-p/1384277

[#5 · Accepted solution]

All the old "ag" gateways were retired some years ago with "bng" gateways (on different IPs) taking over. It looks like some of the redundant IPs are now being re-used as additional "bngs". These gateway routers only need an IP address to carry out their function, it matters not what their names (reverse DNS entries) are.

Changing rDNS to match is never going to be a priority task but until they do we (and the gateway checker) have no means to provide correct names for these new devices.

For information, since what was called the "new network" was introduced users with dynamic IPs go directly to the Internet using either Access Routers and/or Internet Routers. It is only users with static IPs who go through the BNGs. This is necessary to ensure their static IPs are correctly assigned.

[#6]

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@RichardB wrote:

Hi

I have a static IP and using the usertools gateway checker it reported:

      Which Gateway

      You are currently connected to gateway ptn-ag04.

      This is located in Telehouse North.

 Me too.

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[#7]

Thank you David

A new gateway it is then.

Hopefully PN will eventually correct the rDNS out but I fully accept it will not be a priority task 🙂

Richard