System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress returns incorrec t Hostame

[Sven]

Hi!

I have a problem with

System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress(ls_Request.UserHostAddress()).HostName

Usually the call GetHostByAddress returns the correct hostname of the
client, but sometimes I get a hostname like _CERDR1342B88E.
Why? The clients are running under Windows CE.NET 4.1...

Sven

 

[Rutger Smit]

Hi!

I have a problem with

System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress(ls_Request.UserHostAddress()).HostName

Usually the call GetHostByAddress returns the correct hostname of the
client, but sometimes I get a hostname like _CERDR1342B88E.
Why? The clients are running under Windows CE.NET 4.1...

Sven

What happens if you probe a ip address that returns such a name op port 445?
Is it open? If so, the computername is returned and not the hostname.

Someone with more knowledge of the tcp/ip system could clear this out.

//Rutger

 

[Feroze [msft]]

You should post this to the
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework group.

feroze
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[Sven]

Well, the call System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress is executed on a
Windows 2003 Server... and i want to get the hostname of an IP address
(from a Windows CE system). I don't know if the behaviour is specific
to CE...

 

[Sven]

What happens if you probe a ip address that returns such a name op port 445?
Is it open? If so, the computername is returned and not the hostname.

Someone with more knowledge of the tcp/ip system could clear this out.

//Rutger

I looked up the computername on the windows ce machines, but the
computername is the one we set initialy (not _CERDR1342B88E)! But the
call System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress returns _CERDR1342B88E. I don't
know what the call System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress exactly does, but
it does not seem to be right.

Since the hostname is not really _CERDR1342B88E, i think a probe on
port 445 does not make sense...

Sven

 

[Rutger Smit]

I looked up the computername on the windows ce machines, but the
computername is the one we set initialy (not _CERDR1342B88E)! But the
call System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress returns _CERDR1342B88E. I don't
know what the call System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress exactly does, but
it does not seem to be right.

Since the hostname is not really _CERDR1342B88E, i think a probe on
port 445 does not make sense...

Sven

It looks like GetHostByAddress does NOT always do a reverse lookup. Ik
don't know what is doe. Try to analyze the network logs that can be
caputred using Ethereal.

The port 445 suggestion was becaus of the computername, but it doens't
have anything to do with it.

//Rutger